In the February issue of the distinguished New Criterion, our bookish doctor reviews a French radiologist’s book, who happens to be a self-confessed admirer of Dalrymple’s work.

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Although I have been writing for publication for more than forty years, it always pleases (and surprises) me when someone writes to tell me that he or she has read something that I have written. It is reassuring to know that I have not been merely sending messages in a bottle over the ocean from a remote island, never to arrive at any destination.