Contents of the print issue, available at smarter bookstores.

Volume 10, No. 3 - April 2000

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

FIELD NOTES
Junior month abroad/Do cell phones kill?/Peer pressure

BREAKTHROUGH BOOKS
Ex-Yugoslavia

INSIDE PUBLISHING
Stoned history/Allan Bloom, the novel/Heidegger in jail

MONKEYS WHO THINK
They can definitely count to three. They seem to know who's in the mirror. But can they empathize? Marc Hauser reads the primate mind.
by Jennifer Schuessler

SPRING BOOK REVIEWS
PLANET OF THE REPTILES
Robert T. Bakker on Marsh's Dinosaurs

SHE'S GOT MAIL
Francine Prose on The Selected Letters of Rebecca West

WHY THE LONG FACE?
Lawrence Osborne on Akhenaten and the Religion of Light and Nefertiti, Egypt's Sun Queen

OF MAGGOTS AND MEN
David Rakoff on The Cockroach Papers and A Fly for the Prosecution

ALL IN THE FAMILY
Barbara Packer on Desire and Duty at Oneida

TOUGH LOVE
David Bergman on Thom Gunn's Boss Cupid

THE GARDEN OF SWEDEN
Eric Zencey on Linnaeus: Nature and Nation

AMERICAN WITHOUT TEARS
John Palattella on "Here, There, and Everywhere"

ROMANCE, SHE WROTE
John Sutherland on Idol of Suburbia

THE POCOCKIAD
David Armitage on J.G.A. Pocock's Barbarism and Religion

CONFERENCES

HYPOTHESES
Jim Holt on the confidence crisis.

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