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Symons's masterly portrait of Frederick Rolfe, another fraud with folie de grandeur , in "The Quest for Corvo," which Trevor-Roper recognizes in his final pages as haunting his own book.

Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver Joseph Epstein 2011

Naturally, some of these non-Doylean adventures are better than others: Julian Symons's ingenious A Three Pipe Problem 1975 is unjustly forgotten, the BBC's recent Sherlock rightly praised.

The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz – review 2011

Surely a few reasoned paragraphs, a joining of the important issues, would have been superior to those closing two paragraphs he did include, in which he suggested that Symons's book is either a disingenuous effort to make nature the norm, or to hype a gullible public with a new pseudo-science.

Sociosexology Degler, Carl N. 1980

The centrality of these subjects to Symons's book derives from two facts about female sexuality today.

Sociosexology Degler, Carl N. 1980

Let me briefly try to suggest some of the broad questions Symons raises so that your readers may know what I mean when I accuse Mr. Geertz of obscuring rather than clarifying the nature of Symons's book.

Sociosexology Degler, Carl N. 1980

In discussing the evolution of sexuality, Symons's purpose was to place the biological character of human sexuality into an evolutionary model of explanation.

Sociosexology Degler, Carl N. 1980

For behind Symons's argument stand even broader questions such as what is human nature, what does it mean to say that we are animal and human, and how do we fit into the animal kingdom?

Sociosexology Degler, Carl N. 1980

But if that personal view was at the root of his cavalier assessment of Symons's book then he did your readers a disservice.

Sociosexology Degler, Carl N. 1980

It was the out-of-hand dismissal of Symons's effort to place human beings within the explanatory framework of evolutionary theory that troubled me.

Sociosexology Degler, Carl N. 1980

It takes me a month of Sundays to catch up on back issues of NYR, and I have only just seen Julian Symons's review of Agatha, by Kathleen Tynan [NYR, December 21].

Foiled Mitford, Jessica 1979