“... in someone he slept with or he got drunk and blurted out what he’d done. Rumours circulated. An anonymous letter hinting I was alive was slipped under the door of his aunt and uncle’s house. Then, in January 1967 a Chilean friend passed through Barcelona and asked de Biedma for Miquel’s address. He gave it to her, but told her I had left Miquel. The ...”

“... exposure was the point, that he wanted to show off, here where nobody knew him, where he could be anonymous and free, could live out an ideal of candour. I felt his cock hard between us; it turned him on to show off like this, I had had no idea.The tone is that of someone contending with matters of enormous moral heft. In What Belongs to You, the earnestness ...”

“... who we never hear from again. Slangy framing devices (a list of phrases taken from the Alcoholics Anonymous handbook, for example) and the use of self-help clichés to explain her characters’ motivations are distracting, as are her poorly constructed sentences and tendency to change tense several times within a paragraph or even within a sentence. Sometimes ...”

“... see a large patch of brown, representing freshly turned ground: this is where the city sends its anonymous dead, to be buried by prison labour. There are also things you could not have seen before: the basketball courts in the centre of prison buildings on Rikers Island, a Sopwith Camel biplane parked on the roof of an office building near Wall ...”

“... he was obliged to defend his Church from another assault, constitutional this time, but again anonymous, sponsored by Thomas Cromwell. The antagonist was an eminent and now elderly lawyer, one Christopher St German, and he was attacking the temporal jurisdiction of the Church through the existence and the practice of the ecclesiastical courts. Since he ...”

“... new phase, and Lisa’s banality merges into her role as a victim of history. It’s as an almost anonymous figure – uncertain even if she’s a Jew, because of what her analysis has brought to light about her parentage – that she perishes in the massacre of the Jews at Babi Yar. Anna G.’s visionary writings have a double meaning, in more than a ...”

“... transports in powerfully erotic terms. There is no evidence of any serious controversy, but one anonymous polemic did complain that the chaste virgin was exhibited as ‘una Venere, non solo prostrata, ma prostituita’. Indeed, to emphasise her physical abandon Bernini portrayed the saint prostrate rather than kneeling, and she is also raised upon a ...”

“... been encouraged by her peers. She did submit a still life to Fry’s ‘Nameless’ exhibition of anonymous works, but there is an unmistakable snobbery in Bell’s inquiry as to whether Fry had ‘let in anything by Carrington’. The pictures she submitted under her own name to the London Group in 1920 were all rejected.Strachey suggested that Bell and ...”

“... chemicals and travel through time, bringing to life whatever ancient moments were recorded by its anonymous original owner. In these cases he finds, in his own description, ‘the light from that moment in time, resurrected on a piece of plastic’.Time is embedded in the way Jenkin works – not just the occasional resurrection but the hand-cranked cameras ...”

“... as his central example in the first essay not even a chronicle, but the apparently vestigial and anonymous Annals of Saint Gall, where the only continuing thread of the discourse is the bare succession of years. Even here, he suggests, there is no warrant for the view that the annals are defective or meaningless. ‘The modern scholar seeks fullness and ...”

“... to compile a collection of them, two pages of which were solemnly presented in evidence. When an anonymous leaflet attacking the authorities circulated in the College, it was sent to a language specialist to identify the author. A Swansea PR firm was hired by the College to put the case against the complainants. Even so, the campaign forced the University to ...”

“... Cambodian author making such a sweeping condemnation of the French character based in good part on anonymous experts would ever have been published. Martin moves on to tell the basic story of Cambodia’s tragedy. Cambodia wins independence from France. Prince Norodom Sihanouk rules through the Sixties. The Khmer Rouge become a political force with the backing ...”

“... till of the Beginish restaurant in Green Street. Reproduced on the cover of the race-card was an anonymous quotation which I was unable to source: ‘The great man was alarmingly humble – and knew that Ascot and Dingle races were akin.’ The great man wasn’t an official of the Irish racing establishment, I suspect, because it doesn’t recognise the ...”

“... refrain which shepherds the winding cortége of Dunbar’s ‘Lament for the Makaris’, to the anonymous Gaelic bard exhorting ‘Ar sliocht Gaodhal ó Ghort Gréag’ (‘The Gael’s race from the Field of Greece’) on the eve of the Battle of Flodden in 1513. That is followed immediately by a nearly twenty-page selection from Gavin Douglas’s great ...”

“... into the continuum. I hope it is giving this elegantly produced book its due if I call it anonymous: egoic interference is minimal, the poet wills himself to disappear into his text. The fate of this degraded, fought-over, misrepresented landscape, between the nexus of railway stations and the loop of the canal, is what concerns the ...”