This week’s intellectual gossip from England: An historian’s wife, herself an academic, is discovered writing anonymous reviews on Amazon.com praising his books and trashing his peers’. He claims not to have known, after threatening to sue publications that even mentioned he was being suspected of writing them himself. See The Independent ‘s report and the Times Literary Supplement ‘s reflection .
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