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Tibor Fischer did it to Martin Amis, Dale Peck did it to Rick Moody, Michiko Kakutani has done it to many, and now, William Dalrymple does it to Sir Vidia. (Also see.)

(The Nobel Prize-winner, meanwhile, wants all university English departments closed down. “Fiction has done its work,” he recently said to James Naughtie.)