“... on Ibn Battuta, the most famous and restless of wandering writers, he is more interested in his anonymous entourage. Literature is a caravan, accumulating and shedding stuff as it moves across the map and time; some of this stuff is knowledge but Kilito likes to give pride of place to stories: the travellers and their entourage pick them up and load them on ...”

“... enigmatic answer, but he lets it pass. As soon as John Self arrives in New York, he starts getting anonymous telephone calls; well, not quite anonymous: ‘Just call me Frank.’ Frank also says, ‘I’m the guy whose life you fucked up,’ and he regularly taunts Self for his drunkenness and gluttony. He berates ...”

“... Lehmann had praised it; Leonard Woolf wanted to publish it. The story was Olivia; the author, anonymous on publication in 1949, was Dorothy Strachey Bussy, Lytton Strachey’s sister. Olivia is a piece of spirited homage, by a woman both spirited and prone to homage. Dorothy Strachey had some of her brother’s susceptibility to surroundings and ...”

“... He set up pressure groups in Tehran – a political innovation in the country – which sent anonymous letters to officials and distributed leaflets and placards calling on Iranians to revolt. Angry protests erupted in major cities the following spring. Helped by the recently introduced telegraph, the mass demonstrations of the Tobacco Protest, as it ...”

“... Henry Savile, in the late 16th century. It contains twelve bizarre illustrations, added by another anonymous individual some time after the texts were completed. The Pearl Manuscript, as it is usually called, is the only surviving anthology of alliterative poetry, and the sole exemplar of the poems it contains.There is no getting around the weirdness. We ...”

“... and chop off their hands; homosexual vicars and provincial scoutmasters dread the day when some anonymous tip-off – a letter signed with a false name and address is always good enough – will cause Private Eye’s pitiless stare to be fixed on them. ‘If they’re dead they must be Vietcong’ has its local variant in ‘If they’re in the Eye they ...”

“... Tory MPs confirmed ...’ ‘Cabinet colleagues made it clear ... ’. By the first Sunday these anonymous, but undoubtedly senior figures were, as the saying goes, singing like canaries. The Sunday Times’s lead story (‘Top Tories tell PM to sack Parkinson’) quoted six unnamed Tory MPs, ranging from ‘A Tory Privy Councillor’ to ‘An MP from the ...”

“... discovery, or perhaps better say ‘self-admission’, that he was a homosexual. Opportunities for anonymous meetings, rapid switches of identity and habituation to the world of the covert signal and the shared code were to increase as the crisis of the Thirties became deeper. From his shabby rural retreat in Maryland, he made various theatrical forays into ...”

“... of Alter’s goals were achieved in the 1960s in the Jerusalem Bible, an English translation by an anonymous committee (though the translation of Jonah has been attributed to Tolkien), directed by Alexander Jones, of a decades-long French project by the (Catholic) School of Biblical Studies in Jerusalem. It is without literary pretension and its ...”

“... Lovecraft and his ‘black seas of infinity’, but Thacker finds it expressed most fully in an anonymous poem called ‘The Subharmonic Murmur of Black Tentacular Voids’, to which he devotes his final chapter. In a flat, objective tone, the poem delineates a dead world:Temperature constrains all lifeIn the permafrost,Hibernating for millions of years ...”

“... these come the tourists. In a mighty view of the mighty Pantheon they gather in the centre – anonymous, scale-giving manikins. Outside Notre Dame they queue, scurry and wander in ant-like, indeterminate activity. We get closer to them in photographs of church and gallery interiors: in the Vatican a blurred scrum, in the Hermitage a crowd of ...”

“... several years after the diamond magnate Julius Wernher had bought Saint Michael as the work of an anonymous Provençal master, that further panels were added to Bermejo’s corpus (which now comprises about twenty works). These included the Triptych of the Virgin of Montserrat and four panels from a lost altarpiece, known as Christ the Redeemer, which are ...”

“... enough in the culture. For example, when the figure appears in art here, it is almost always anonymous and abused. Two hundred years ago the human body represented an ideal of transcendent beauty; today it is far more likely to signify a reality of everyday subjection.Some early reports have deemed this Biennale ‘conservative’. What this means ...”

“... the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Italy and Spain; a further ten countries wished to remain anonymous. After the announcement, Spain, Italy and France said that their naval vessels would continue to operate in the Red Sea, but their forces would not be under US command. The number of named participants now stands at ten (not including Spain, Italy and ...”

“... in medieval medical recipes, both consumed and applied to the body during pregnancy and labour.An anonymous Italian painting from the 15th century offers a more comprehensive view of the lying-in chamber, where the pregnant woman would retreat for weeks before and after giving birth. A new mother sits in a four-poster bed, listening to a seated woman who has ...”