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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

LRB cover artwork: Drawer, disassembled

Featured articles

The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism
Jerry Fodor on Pinker and Plotkin

In the Workshop
Tom Paulin on Shakespeare’s Sonnets