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Memory: An Anthology, edited by Harriet Harvey Wood and A.S. Byatt

“William Maxwell called memory “a form of storytelling … in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw”. John Stuart Mill thought it “the present consciousness of a past sensation”. The science contributors to this anthology locate the various functions of memory in different areas of the brain. Whatever it may be, and wherever it may reside, it is the single human function that has provoked speculation from Plato through St Augustine – both given due attention here – to Jane Austen, Tennyson, Virginia Woolf and the cognitive scientists and psychologists of today. That shower of names may give some flavour of the book’s scope. In fact, it is hard to do justice in a review to the range and depth of a collection which aligns brief sound-bites – Lewis Carroll, Anthony Powell – with entries that run over several pages.” Read the review at the Financial Times.

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