The New York Review of Books

The Man Who Set the Clock Back

October 4, 2001

The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester

The Man Who Invented Natural History

October 22, 1998

Buffon by Jacques Roger, translated by Sarah Lucille Bonnefoi

Evolutionary Psychology: An Exchange

October 9, 1997

‘Darwinian Fundamentalism’: An Exchange

August 14, 1997

Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism

June 26, 1997

Darwinian Fundamentalism

June 12, 1997

Why Darwin?

April 4, 1996

Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne

The Case for the Kid

October 5, 1995

Great Sport

April 20, 1995

Good Sports & Bad

March 2, 1995

Ball Four by Jim Bouton, edited by Leonard Schecter

My Life in Baseball: The True Record by Ty Cobb, by Al Stump

Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump, foreword by Jimmie Reese

Cobb A film written and directed by Ron Shelton

Matty: An American Hero, Christy Mathewson and the New York Giants by Ray Robinson

Hitter: The Life and Turmoils of Ted Williams by Ed Linn

‘I Ain’t An Athlete, Lady…’: My Well-Rounded Life and Times by John Kruk, by Paul Hagen

Don’t Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball by Mark Ribowsky

The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff

The Meaning of Nolan Ryan by Nick Trujillo

So Near and Yet So Far

October 20, 1994

Baseball: Joys and Lamentations

November 4, 1993

My Life As A Fan by Wilfrid Sheed

Fridays With Red: A Radio Friendship by Bob Edwards

The Era, 1947–1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World by Roger Kahn

The Gospel According to Casey: Casey Stengel’s Inimitable, Instructional, Historical Baseball Book by Ira Berkow, by Jim Kaplan

O Holy Cow! The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto edited by Tom Peyer, edited by Hart Seely

Dinomania

August 12, 1993

Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Michael Crichton, by David Koepp

The Making of Jurassic Park by Don Shay, by Jody Duncan

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

‘Confusion Over Evolution’: An Exchange

January 14, 1993

The Confusion over Evolution

November 19, 1992

The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today by Helena Cronin

The Miner’s Canary by Niles Eldredge

On Methuselah’s Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions by Peter Douglas Ward

Dreams That Money Can Buy

November 5, 1992

The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story by Peter Lefcourt

Box Socials by W.P. Kinsella

The Cleveland Indian: The Legend of King Saturday by Luke Salisbury

Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime by Andrew Zimbalist

The Diamond Revolution: The Prospects for Baseball After the Collapse of Its Ruling Class by Neil J. Sullivan

The Brooklyn Dodgers by Peter C. Bjarkman

Lost Ballparks: A Celebration of Baseball’s Legendary Fields by Lawrence S. Ritter

The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History Chartwell Books, 110 Enterprise Avenue, Secaucus, New Yersey, 07094; Amereon Ltd., P.O. Box 1200, Mattituck, New York, 11952.) by Phil Dixon, by Patrick J. Hannigan

Baseball: The Perfect Game Photographs by Danielle Weil, Introduction by David Halberstam, text by Peter Richmond

The H and Q of Baseball

October 24, 1991

A Whole Different Ball Game: The Sport and Business of Baseball by Marvin Miller

Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures edited by Dick Johnson, text by Glenn Stout

My Favorite Summer 1956 by Mickey Mantle, by Phil Pepe

The Home Run Heard ‘Round the World: The Dramatic Story of the 1951 Giants–Dodgers Pennant Race by Ray Robinson

The Birth of the Two-Sex World

June 13, 1991

Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud by Thomas Laqueur

The Virtues of Nakedness

October 11, 1990

Baseball: The People’s Game by Harold Seymour

Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball by George F. Will

When the Cheering Stops: Former Major Leaguers Talk about Their Game and Their Lives by Lee Heiman, by Dave Weiner, by Bill Gutman

Down on the Farm

January 18, 1990

From Foraging to Agriculture: The Levant at the End of the Ice Age by Donald O. Henry

The Tragedy of AIDS

January 19, 1989

Mighty Manchester

October 27, 1988

Infinite in All Directions by Freeman J. Dyson

The Streak of Streaks

August 18, 1988

Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of ‘41 by Michael Seidel

Pussycats and the Owl

March 3, 1988

The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age by Harriet Ritvo

One Man’s Owl by Bernd Heinrich

Animals and Us

June 25, 1987

In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human–Animal Relationships by James Serpell

Adam’s Task: Calling Animals by Name by Vicki Hearne

Muir Among the Animals: The Wildlife Writings of John Muir edited by Lisa Mighetto

The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior by Jane Goodall

Cardboard Darwinism

September 25, 1986

Vaulting Ambition by Philip Kitcher

Myths of Gender by Anne Fausto-Sterling

Females of the Species: Sex and Survival in the Animal Kingdom by Bettyann Kevles

A Triumph of Historical Excavation

February 27, 1986

The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists by Martin J.S. Rudwick

Mysteries of the Panda

August 15, 1985

The Giant Pandas of Wolong by George B. Schaller, by Hu Jinchu, by Pan Wenshi, by Zhu Jing

Between You and Your Genes

August 16, 1984

Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature by R.C. Lewontin, by Steven Rose, by Leon J. Kamin

Triumph of a Naturalist

March 29, 1984

A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock by Evelyn Fox Keller

Thwarted Genius

November 24, 1983

Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just by Kenneth R. Manning

Calling Dr. Thomas

July 21, 1983

The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher by Lewis Thomas

Genes on the Brain

June 30, 1983

Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind by Charles J. Lumsden, by Edward O. Wilson

Utopia (Limited)

March 3, 1983

The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture by Fritjof Capra

Will Man Become Obsolete?

April 15, 1982

The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe by Robert Jastrow

The Quack Detector

February 4, 1982

Science: Good, Bad and Bogus by Martin Gardner

Deep Time and Ceaseless Motion

May 14, 1981

Basin and Range by John McPhee

The Earth Generated and Anatomized by William Hobbs, edited by Roy Porter

The Ghost of Protagoras

January 22, 1981

The Evolution of Culture in Animals by John Tyler Bonner

Man, the Promising Primate by Peter J. Wilson

What Is Intelligence?

December 18, 1980

In an Evolutionary Crucible

November 20, 1980

Galapagos: Islands Lost in Time by Tui De Roy Moore

Jensen and Bias: An Exchange

October 23, 1980

Jensen’s Last Stand

May 1, 1980

Bias in Mental Testing by Arthur R. Jensen

The Middle Way

January 24, 1980

Advice to a Young Scientist by P.B. Medawar

Dreamer

October 11, 1979

Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson

Darwin Vindicated!

August 16, 1979

Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X: New Light on the Evolutionists by Loren Eiseley

The Politics of Sociobiology

May 31, 1979

Exultation and Explanation

May 17, 1979

Heroes in Nature

September 28, 1978

A Species of Eternity by Joseph Kastner

Koestler’s Solution

April 20, 1978

Janus: A Summing Up by Arthur Koestler