Paul Johnston In the Presence of Mystery Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe Roger Penrose Princeton University Press, $29.95, 520 pp. As Jim and Huck float down the...
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Paul Johnston Look to the Insects Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others David Sloan Wilson Yale, $18, 192 pp. Does altruism exist? For most readers of this review the...
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Paul Johnston Reading 'Huckleberry Finn' in Georgetown The Republic of Imagination America in Three Books Azar Nafisi Viking, $28.95, 338 pp. When cultural conservatives deem a book bad for...
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Goaded by Doubt Paul Johnston My Bright Abyss Meditation of a Modern Believer Christian Wiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24, 192 pp. Modern poetry, like all modern intellectual endeavors,...
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BOOKS Paul Johnston The Hard Problem Soul Dust The Magic of Consciousness Nicholas Humphrey Princeton University Press, $24.95, 256 pp. When I discuss the scientific study of human...
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Paul Johnston My reading this year has been the usual hodgepodge of old and new, fiction and nonaction, prose and poetry. In the old category is Edwin O'Connor's The Edge of Sadness (Loyola...
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