“... and a poor command of the language, but has returned to his native village at the moment when, unknown to him, the great deportations are being planned in Istanbul. With Gabriel come his sophisticated French wife, Juliette, and their young son, Stephan. At first, Juliette is charmed by the place but soon, as Gabriel mingles with the villagers, riddles of ...”

“... not only were all of its citizens unimprovably provided for, even personal anguish was unknown. I have no doubt that, in reality, my young guide was fully acquainted with despair, and may well have known people who had been driven to kill themselves: just a few years before, in the late 1990s, the country had been struck by a famine so dreadful ...”

“... an adult? He writes in the paragraph that follows that the figure signified ‘the shadow of the unknown’ or ‘the darkness within the light’, but this feels like just one notecard in a deck of possibilities. Although there are many interesting moments in Spring, the reader basically wants out, as the characters do. A bit after the middle of the ...”

“... rhythms. While this could be waved away as the language of shock, trauma, being prised apart by unknown hands, it isn’t quite – and anyway we can’t know, since we don’t hear the voice of the Girl before she has been kidnapped. It is more the language of first encounter. If the Girl’s interior is a forest, neither do the trees there have ...”

“... that toured between 2011 and 2014. In 2017 a cache of sixty thousand negatives, deposited by an unknown intermediary, was released to his nephew Leslie Matlaisane by a Swedish bank; some dated from Cole’s days in South Africa, others from his tentative field trips in the US before his Ford Foundation venture bombed. The negatives were shared by Magnum ...”

“... residents who use it as a field on which to test all-terrain vehicles. Other historical sites are unknown and unmarked. Namibia’s economy depends on European tourism, and commemorating a European genocide makes visitors uncomfortable. In the tourist camp at the Waterberg National Park, a restaurant serving German dishes – ‘game Schnitzel’ was on the ...”

“... more than a thousand Palestinians, including the hospital staff, trucking about seventy to an unknown location. The World Health Organisation has recorded 240 attacks on medical facilities.At first Israeli forces blocked all aid from entering Gaza, while also cutting off supplies of fuel, water, electricity and food. The UN assessment is that a quarter of ...”

“... recent, ‘early modern’, and, before the age of Western imperial expansion, rare or unknown anywhere else. The cosmology of his Amazon companions is much more widely distributed, and what we crudely call ‘animism’, attributing it to people whom we take for primitive, becomes a strikingly viable cosmology. Viveiros de Castro is less committed ...”

“... title of ‘High priestess (en), who is the ornament (hedu) of heaven (ana)’. (Her birth name is unknown.) Her husband, Nanna, was thought to herd the stars like cattle; his horns were the crescent moon. As a deity’s wife, she was forbidden from marrying a human male or giving birth to children. In ritually impersonating Ningal, Enheduana became ‘a kind ...”

“... with another bit of Catullus. This is a rough translation of a recently discovered and hitherto unknown fragment of text. It appears to take the form of an interview between the Roman poet and John D. Pepper:John D. Pepper: Death.Catullus: Death made me grow up.John D. Pepper (henceforth Pepper): Love.Catullus: Love made me ...”

“... was remanded till Monday for stealing a quantity of nails, ‘the property of some person unknown’. The only man who had not committed a property crime of any kind was John Cooper, who was charged with playing ‘pitch and toss’ with pennies and ha’pennies in the public highway in Camberwell, which was a new offence under the recent Highways ...”

“... as a writer, producing a Latin comedy that he put into circulation as if it were a previously unknown classical text. He also began to study mathematics, as a form of relaxation. Alberti would pursue the study of both the classics and technical subjects, often together, throughout his life.He started out as a cleric in minor orders, working in the papal ...”

“... as the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. In part because Richer’s record of Hugh’s election was unknown in France, other versions of the Capetian takeover were invented by chroniclers. The fate of Richer’s account, which described a legitimate election rather than the usurpation portrayed in so many subsequent chronicles, serves as a salutary reminder of ...”

“... societies and there are many exceptions – brother-sister and even parent-child marriage are not unknown in the historical record – almost all societies start with some sort of prohibition on sex with immediate kin. Frequently the degree of prohibition goes much further than that and covers lots of other people too. Despite this, incest still ...”

“... be given another nut, which might hide a miniature spinning wheel that could save you in some unknown future peril when you need to spin a thread or identify yourself. A horse or a fox or a donkey or even a wolf if handled correctly might take you from the low world to the high. Throw a toad against a wall and it becomes a prince; kiss it and it becomes a ...”