"This review makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on self reference. It is tightly argued, insightful and provocative. Despite the obvious merits of the work, there are three problems that deserve attention. Firstly, no review is a good review unless it criticizes whatever it is that the review is about (following a few standard compliments which are intended to make the author feel standard). Since this in itself is a review, and moreover, a review that is about itself, it must contain something worth criticizing. Suppose for the sake of argument that there is nothing wrong with this review. There are two ways in which this state of affairs can be realised. One way is that this review doesn’t contain any criticisms. If that were the case then, since we have already established that every good review has a criticism of what it is about, then this review would not meet the standards of what it is to be a good review. On the other hand, if this review does contain a criticism, then there is a further dilemma: either the criticism is a good criticism or it isn’t. If it is a good criticism, then obviously there was something worth criticizing. On the other hand, if it is a bad criticism, then the bad criticism is itself worthy of criticism, and so again there is something worth criticizing. The second problem with this review is that it does not contain the number of problems that it claims it has, goes on a little too long, and ends rather abruptly." -- Leon Leontyev