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Dubious

Eric Christiansen The Age of the Cathedrals Georges Duby, trans. Eleanor Levieux and Barbara Thompson (Croom Helm pp. 312, £14.95) In the beginning, there was Professor Duby.......

Imperilled

Francis King Zuckerman Unbound Philip Roth (Cape pp. 225, £5.95) It is as natural that a novelist should feel impelled to write about his art as that an adolescent suffering......