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Pet Project

Matthew Scully

If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Minds and the Evolution of Consciousness by stephen budiansky free press, 210 pages, $15.10 Stephen Budianskyโ€™s If a Lion Could Talk is a...

Exultant Abnegation

Matthew Scully

Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography by roger shattuck st. martins, 369 pages, $26.95 As the title suggests, this book ventures into some fairly dangerous territory. Author Roger Shattuck...

Viktor Frankl at Ninety: An Interview

Matthew Scully

Did you ever hear from Otto?โ€ I asked Viktor Frankl. Readers of Franklโ€™s classic Manโ€™s Search for Meaning: Experiences in the Concentration Camp will remember Otto as the fellow...

A Modern Pilgrimโ€™s Progress

Matthew Scully

Saints & Sinners: Walter Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray Oโ€™Hair, Anton LeVay, Will Campbell, Matthew Fox by lawrence wright knopf, 266 pages, $24 Lawrence Wrightโ€™s memoir of a few...