In 1996, a then-unknown professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University, in Pennsylvania, published a book in which he claimed to be the author of a scientific discovery of the magnitude of those of Copernicus or Newton. Those of us in...
Before I read Daniel Karlin’s excellent new book Proust’s English, I had never given a thought to the word “smart” as part of the French lexicon. Either its vogue in French is long passed, as Karlin suggests, or I do not travel in...
