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Contents

Vol. 20 No. 2   ·   22 January 1998

The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism

Jerry Fodor on Pinker and Plotkin

  • How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
  • Evolution in Mind by Henry Plotkin

In the Workshop

Tom Paulin on Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Letters

Gilbert Adair, Aidan Foster-Carter, Patrick Nairne, Ian Buruma, Norman Cantor, Eric Foner, Terence Hawkes, Peter Lamarque, Christopher Small, Leo Baxendale, Alison Walker, Richard Davies

Frank Kermode

  • Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama, Politics and the Translation of Empire by Heather James

R.W. Johnson

  • The British General Election of 1997 by David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh
  • Labour's Landslide by Andrew Geddes and Jonathan Tonge
  • Britain Votes 1997 edited by Pippa Norris and Neil Gavin
  • Collapse of Stout Party: The Decline and Fall of the Tories by Julian Crtitchley and Morrison Halcrow
  • Les Election Legislatives, 25 Mai-1er Juin 1997: Le president desavoue

Ian Hamilton

  • Assassination of a Princess by Ahmad Ata
  • Diana: A Princess Killed by Love by Ilham Sharshar
  • Who Killed Diana? by Muhammad Ragab
  • Harrods: A Place in Knightsbridge by Tim Dale

David Craig

Margaret Anne Doody

  • Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington edited by A.C. Elias

Derek Parfit: Why there is a universe

Audrey Gillan on the drubbing of Mohammad Sarwar

E.S. Turner

  • Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras by Terence Grocott

Contributors

Featured articles

The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism
Jerry Fodor on Pinker and Plotkin

In the Workshop
Tom Paulin on Shakespeare’s Sonnets