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Masters Of Mystification

Douglas Johnson INTELLECTUAL POSTURES by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont Profile, £9.99, pp. 280 A lan Sokal is Professor of Physics at New York University, but his worldly fame......

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Francis King THE SPELL by Alan Hollinghurst Chatto, £15.99, pp. 257 T he spell which gives its title to this arrestingly self-confident novel is that of addiction: the addiction......