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Vol. 4, Number 2 Summer 2001

Summer 2001 - Contents


Letter from the Editor by Lily Sheehan
The Illness of Modern Life
reviewed by Bikram Chatterji
review of The Diagnosis
book by Alan Lightman
Can Darwin Replace Marx?
reviewed by Joshua Foer
review of A Darwinian Left
book by Peter Singer
Of Beasts and Philosophers
reviewed by Susannah Rutherglen
review of Writings on an Ethical Life
book by Peter Singer
Heroism with Chinese Characteristics
reviewed by Michelle Chen
review of Please Don't Call Me Human
book by Wang Shuo
Two Men and a Ouija Board
reviewed by Eva Kaye
review of Familiar Spirits
book by Alison Lurie
The Will to War
reviewed by Margaux Wexberg
review of The Rules of Engagement
book by Catherine Bush
Children of the Century
reviewed by Carey Seal
review of Romanticism and its Discontents
book by Carey Seal
The Postmodern Biographer
reviewed by Daniel Mattingly
review of The Biographer's Tale
book by A.S. Byatt
Dispelling Historical Myth
reviewed by Robert Cunningham
review of Barbarian Virtues
book by Matthew Frye Jacobson
A Noir Story
reviewed by James McNamara
review of Kingdom of Shadows
book by Alan Furst
Let's Go Australia
reviewed by Noam Schimmel
review of In a Sunburned Country
book by Bill Bryson
A Daoist Pilgrimmage
reviewed by Aaron Modiano
review of Soul Mountain
book by Gao Xinjian
Ironies of the Unconventional
reviewed by Elizabeth Archibald
review of The Torturer's Apprentice
book by John Biguenet
Books in Brief
reviews by Susannah Rutherglen & Carey Seal
Trumping Conspicuous Consumption
reviewed by Aaron Goode
review of Trumps
book by Gwenda Blair



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