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Pet Project
If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Minds and the Evolution of Consciousness by Stephen Budiansky Free Press, 210 pages, $25 Stephen Budiansky’s If a Lion Could Talk is a...
Exultant Abnegation
Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography By Roger Shattuck.St. Martins, 369 pages, $26.95. As the title suggests, this book ventures into some fairly dangerous territory. Author Roger Shattuck has...
Viktor Frankl at Ninety: An Interview
Did you ever hear from Otto?” I asked Viktor Frankl. Readers of Frankl’s classic Man’s Search for Meaning: Experiences in the Concentration Camp will remember Otto as the fellow...
A Modern Pilgrim’s Progress
Saints & Sinners: Walter Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Anton LeVay, Will Campbell, Matthew Fox by lawrence wright knopf, 266 pages, $24 Lawrence Wright’s memoir of a few...