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“... I woke to your knocking, convinced someone was patrolling the corridor, hammering the doors. The heat was intense, and I wished it would rain. Your name came to me, and I thought about all I’d once known about you but forgot, and once again I saw those glossy textbook illustrations full of bright colours, capital letters, Latin names, those likenesses that used to take my breath away in school ...”

“... In his ‘Autobiography’, Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) tells of summoning demons in the Roman Colosseum with the aid of a priest adept in the black arts. The next night, in hopes of clearer communication with the underworld, they return and call up the demons again. This time his spells produce a larger, more unruly crowd from hell. The priest looks pleased, a little anxious, too ...”

“... Looking at Rousseau’s ‘Sleeping Gypsy’ For Anna Brodsky A gypsy girl decides to visit her grandmother on the other side of the desert. Carrying a staff, a jar of water to quench her thirst, and a lute for songs to keep her company, she travels all day. It’s getting dark when she arrives at an oasis. After she eats a few dates and drinks some water, she picks up her lute and sings herself a song ...”

“... the Los Angeles County Museum, where his work is on display, his life collides with that of Lily Aaron, a divorcee with a son called Lincoln. Lily shows a womanly sophistication and cynical maturity that one presumes must come from her past experiences of ‘things not working out’, and a disarming, sentimental girlishness which surely must have betrayed ...”

“... head. This house, and the wooded landscape surrounding it, was built by Andrew’s ‘father’, Aaron, who was the first of the many souls to work out what was going on. With the help of a kindly therapist, Aaron tamed the chaotic inner landscape, imposing order and building a life in the outside world. Then, exhausted by ...”

“... professors stopped being listed automatically about twenty years ago.In 2016, two sociologists, Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman, began a study of the British elite founded on the 125,000 entries in the database of Who’s Who and its companion volume, Who Was Who. They supplemented this body of material with some interviews – new or archival – with ...”

“... Aaron Barschak, who gatecrashed Prince William’s 21st birthday party last year, says the question he is most often asked is: ‘What was Camilla Parker Bowles like?’ He could do worse than refer the curious to Rebecca Tyrrel’s book. Born on 17 July 1947 (she is 16 months older than Prince Charles), Camilla is the daughter of an army major, Bruce Shand, and a society hostess, the Honourable Rosalind Shand (née Cubitt ...”

“... says in Brecht’s play of that name. Galileo wasn’t thinking of superheroes, of course, but Jonathan and Christopher Nolan, the writers of The Dark Knight, the new Batman movie, are certainly thinking along Galileo’s lines. What is Gotham City to do without a hero, since organised crime is always, it seems, far too much for the official institutions ...”

“... who was doing all the dirty work in the war and the army. He deserved a fanfare.’ This is how Aaron Copland explained his Fanfare for the Common Man, composed in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. If any theme links the books discussed here, it is the victory of the ‘common man’ – as represented by English and Welsh archers – on the ...”

“... to the German side, who was later a convert to ‘the beautiful ideas of National Socialism’; Aaron Aaronsohn, an agronomist who worked to make the Palestinian desert flower, and became a Zionist, setting up a Jewish spy network in Palestine to help the Allies; and Mark Sykes, co-author of the notorious Sykes-Picot agreement, secretly parcelling out ...”

“... work. And yet, almost miraculously, it isn’t either of those things, because Meloy (unlike, say, Jonathan Franzen) has such a sure handle on what to leave out. Her style is impressively unshowy: it’s not even showily unshowy, not seeing the need to draw attention to its pared-down restraint. The New Yorker left her off its fanfare-y list this summer of the ...”

“... and lucrative runs (Fielding made nearly a thousand pounds from The Modern Husband, according to Aaron Hill, and lost it all at cards), he only regained his creative stride when he returned to the improvisatory chaos of farce in 1736-37 with the politically incendiary Pasquin and The Historical Register for the Year 1736. The same disdain for technical ...”

“... grabbed Foote’s pistol and locked it in his desk. Less fortunate was the Democratic congressman Jonathan Cilley of Maine, killed in a duel by his colleague William Graves of Kentucky in 1838. As Freeman relates, this confrontation, which no one really wanted to take place, originated with some innocuous comments on the House floor about corruption in the ...”

“... albums, but Cale moved in the other direction, from the world of La Monte Young, Aaron Copland and John Cage to that of drums, rhythm and bass, and, of course, viola. His parents hoped he’d become a doctor or a lawyer, but in his late teens Cale became obsessed with contemporary classical music, in particular the works of Webern, Berg and ...”

“... we know because its creator was live-blogging at the time. The scene is as it was recounted in Aaron Sorkin’s movie about the birth of Facebook, The Social Network. While in his first year at Harvard, Zuckerberg suffered a romantic rebuff. Who wouldn’t respond to this by creating a website where undergraduates’ pictures are placed side by side so ...”