“... Tibbald or Tibbles, inherited a name that just happened to be as innocently embarrassing as, say, Thomas Kitten. The name Theobald/Tibbald was there; Pope didn’t put it there. What is difficult about Pope is not his fantasy but his facts. The poet might have told Mack that no ‘translation’ had taken place, that not he but Nature had made ...”

“... of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art’), and Styles of Radical Will, were akin to Bob Dylan going electric. For a large portion of the 1960s and early 1970s the mass-market paperback of Against Interpretation, with Sontag’s face on the cover, was in every countercultural kit bag, a pocket bible to ward off vampires and philistines. In with the ...”

“... its governance. It’s expecting to see an action plan this month. Hilary Mantel​ ’s Thomas Cromwell thinks ‘account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.’ Account books, and policies and procedures, and agendas and scatterplots and laws: all these things tell stories about an organisation, and they are ...”