August 2000 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Biography | Intelligence | Foreign Parts | Politics | Fiction Biography Nikolai Tolstoy Wait for my Version Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed By Dean King LR Intelligence Bryan Appleyard They May Have an Emotional Hole Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think By Marc Hauser The Lives of Animals By J M Coetzee LR A C Grayling Naked at a Party The Private Life of the Brain By Susan A Greenfield LR Foreign Parts Frank McLynn The Women’s Studies Course at Boulder Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush By Susan Lee Johnson LR Politics Vernon Bogdanor No Love, No Desire Democracy in Europe By Larry Siedentop LR Michael Bloch Seeing Politics as a Sexual Exercise Fellatio, Masochism, Politics and Love By Leo Abse LR Fiction Sam Leith Talking It Over Again Love, etc By Julian Barnes LR
Bryan Appleyard They May Have an Emotional Hole Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think By Marc Hauser The Lives of Animals By J M Coetzee LR
Frank McLynn The Women’s Studies Course at Boulder Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush By Susan Lee Johnson LR
Michael Bloch Seeing Politics as a Sexual Exercise Fellatio, Masochism, Politics and Love By Leo Abse LR
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson is practically a byword for old-fashioned Victorian grandeur, rarely pictured without a cravat and a serious beard.
Seamus Perry tries to picture him as a younger man.
Seamus Perry - Before the Beard
Seamus Perry: Before the Beard - The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
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Novelist Muriel Spark had a tongue that could produce both sugar and poison. It’s no surprise, then, that her letters make for a brilliant read.
@claire_harman considers some of the most entertaining.
Claire Harman - Fighting Words
Claire Harman: Fighting Words - The Letters of Muriel Spark, Volume 1: 1944-1963 by Dan Gunn
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Of all the articles I’ve published in recent years, this is *by far* my favourite.
✍️ On childhood, memory, and the sea - for @Lit_Review :
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