“... of these amputations on the grounds that releasing the information would help ‘the enemy’). Unknown numbers have psychological injuries. Financially, the British operation in Helmand was under-resourced. It was, nonetheless, wildly expensive. Ledwidge puts the cost at £40 billion, or £2000 for each taxpaying household. Britain built a base in ...”

“... in Soweto, in a family of ten children, four of whom died young, one of them stabbed to death by unknown perpetrators when he was 21. As with many characters in this story, Judge Masipa’s life has followed violence from apartheid to its aftermath, and is revealing of the reality of South Africa’s hidden and unhidden crimes. She has, as one could ...”

“... describe not Thomas Mann, but Mann’s own father-in-law, Alfred Pringsheim. When Thomas Mann, an unknown, poor and ambitious young man from the Baltic, married Katia Pringsheim, he was no less intimidated by the cultural sophistication and general social confidence of Katia’s family than Hendrik Höfgen was by the family of Barbara Bruckner in ...”

“... his body is folding into an arc of pleasure, as if it’s about to leap off into one more flimsy unknown. All the little black stars are tunnelling within, but here he is in meeting-the-accountant suit and soles, and meeting the monster laughing fit to burst. Pure joy creasing the familiar face. Maybe he’s even laughing at one last silly Narcissus ...”

“... the favour.’ She fought for all the women whose bodies have been appropriated by men, known and unknown, through lurid descriptions and graphic imagery, men who whistle and undress women with their eyes in public and private spaces. Uncles who wink at them when their parents are not looking, the managers and senior colleagues who, in a handshake, quickly ...”

“... probably was foolproof. It was only a freakish stroke of bad luck that put the kibosh on it all. Unknown to my brother, the FBI had been tailing these two dopey hoods because of some Audubon paintings they’d managed to steal along the way. So when my brother went down to Philadelphia to meet with these guys, he was suddenly under the purview of the FBI as ...”

“... If not exactly ‘known’ – or at least not to many straight people – she’s not entirely unknown on Queer Street. Gay and lesbian scholars have paid sporadic tribute to this cheekiest of mares. There’s a full-length biography (not so great) and two books, both excellent, dealing with de Acosta’s Garbo fixation – its rhapsodic beginnings (she ...”

“... informers. One of the would-be murderers was an FBI plant. The other commissioned killing had an unknown outcome, because nobody seems to have been murdered: the most likely explanation is that somebody or bodies pretended to be hitmen in order to con Ulbricht out of money. (Neither case has come to trial.) Dread Pirate Roberts had completely lost his ...”

“... households below the poverty line is now well over a million. In 2010, food banks were almost unknown in the UK; there are now more than three thousand. Between April 2023 and March 2024, the Trussell Trust (which runs around half of them) handed out 3.1 million food parcels, an increase of 94 per cent over the previous five years. It estimates that one ...”

“... for the crime, that I had a dreadful guilty secret that I would henceforth carry with me unknown to myself for thirty years. And like the scene of seduction in Freud, the truth or falsehood of the matter was utterly irrelevant.The third element in Carol’s death was the childhood puzzle of death itself and my unresolved mourning for her ...”

“... I ends: ‘Meanwhile, in 1844, a report was received that in North America a disease, hitherto unknown, had attacked the potato crop.’) Her tone is English to the core, a cross between Margaret Thatcher and A.S. Byatt: she knows the difference between right and wrong (a matter which is still hotly debated in Ireland), and she knows a bad man when she ...”

“... disappears.’ Remarking that ‘we usually associate the national spirit with the sublime’ – unknown soldiers, torn flags and the rest – Moretti observes that what makes a nation laugh is more distinctive than what makes it cry, where ‘the same sublime objects reappear relentlessly from one culture to another.’ Comedy differentiates. ‘All sublime ...”

“... wrecking operation (‘The result … is that the world remains not only unchanged but also unknown. What is more, they invite us to celebrate such impotence at this hecatomb of all previous interpretations’). How, we used to wonder, did this anti-Foucault vehemence play out in the senior common room, given that Sussex in the 1980s was one of the main ...”

“... unsuccessfully – was Gertrude Stein. (She died four months later.) In 1951, aided by unknown accomplices ‘dressed as nuns’, Faÿ escaped from prison and fled to safety in Switzerland. Some Stein scholars believe the Catholic Church engineered the escape. Toklas seems to have helped to finance it, purportedly by selling one or several Picasso ...”

“... there was an attempted coup against Erdoğan’s government. Nearly two years on, much is still unknown about the events of that day. We do know that 249 Turkish citizens were killed in a night of unprecedented violence on the streets of Istanbul and Ankara, as land forces in army trucks and tanks took up position on Istanbul’s main bridges and F-16s ...”