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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