Book Reviews

THE MORAL ANIMAL: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life. By Robert Wright. Pantheon. 467 pp. $27.50 THE HUNGRY SOUL: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature. By Leon Kass. FreePress. 248 pp. $24.95

By Li Zhisui. With the editorial assistance of Anne F. Thurston. Trans. by Tai Hung-chao. Random House. 682 pp. $30

By Roberto Calasso. Trans. by William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli. Harvard. 385 pp. $24.95

By Lee Siegel. Univ. of Chicago. 455 pp. $60 (hardback); $19.95 (paper)

By Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. Free Press. 845 pp. $30

By Cullen Murphy. Houghton Mifflin. 248 pp. $21.95

By Donald Harman Akenson. Cornell. 573 pp. $35

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