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Hysteria Revisited

Brian Inglis A Leg to Stand On Oliver Sacks (Duckworth £8.95) Doctors Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson £10.95) O liver Sacks, neurologist extraordin- ary, panicked......

Logotarditis

Patrick Skene Catling Swallow D. M. Thomas (Gollancz £895) M ako [the US Secretary of State] strode around with increasing des- peration. He could see there was some- thing......

Pale Greene

Lewis Jones Doctor Slaughter Paul Theroux (Hamish Hamilton £6.95) T here is as much in the way of tourism in Paul Theroux's fiction as in his books about long railway journeys.......