Richard Jenkyns, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford. His most recent book is Virgil’s Experience.(November 2001)
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The Labyrinth of Arthur Evans
November 1, 2001
Motya: Unearthing a Lost Civilization by Gaia Servadio
Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth
by Joseph Alexander MacGillivray
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China is Near
December 3, 1998
The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds
by Jonathan D. Spence
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2001
May 28, 1998
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist’s Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
by Stephen Jay Gould
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Cards of Identity
April 23, 1998
Possessed by the Past: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History by David Lowenthal
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Points of Order
November 20, 1997
The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination by Harriet Ritvo
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Lady Charlotte’s Bulls
October 23, 1997
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Child’s Play
July 17, 1997
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler
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But Is It True?
December 19, 1996
Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit by David A. Traill
Lost and Found: The 9,000 Treasures of Troy: Heinrich Schliemann and the Gold That Got Away by Caroline Moorehead
The Gold of Troy: Searching for Homer’s Fabled City Museum of Fine Arts/Abrams by Vladimir Tolstikov, by Mikhail Treister
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The Pleasures of Melodrama
July 11, 1996
George Cruikshank’s Life, Times, and Art by Robert L. Patten
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Victoria’s Secret
November 30, 1995
When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians by Patricia Anderson
The Naked Heart by Peter Gay
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The Bellow & the Uproar
March 2, 1995
Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization by Richard Sennett