“... was ‘not making any real effort to present the National-Socialist regime in its most favourable light’. A crude Goebbels-inspired campaign in the German press made play of the fact that the Times spelled backwards was ‘Semit’, supposedly a sign that it was a Jewish-Marxist organisation.In August that year, three German journalists were expelled from ...”

“... size in the normal run of things? These are the formulae, almost exactly, that were reached for by Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro in their earliest denial mode (from which Bolsonaro remains unbudged). To Camus, such thinking shouldn’t be dismissed as the ranting of dangerous fools, even when it is that. He is interested in how human subjects deal with ...”

“... The reader is enabled, rather, to see something like the minute gradations of colour in light; so that it is genuinely hard to say with truth that Coleridge is the master of three or four or five poems, and of no others. But light does sometimes achieve full day. Any good reader will recognise that there is a ...”

“... to attack the wrong ex-hippie for crimes against their son, imagines a beam of forgiveness-seeking light shooting out of her forehead,charged with the notion I am so sorry, that travelled across town and crossed the river and roamed through the woods until it found the two guys and, having briefly paused above them because they looked so damned ...”

“... back to these paddocks in my dreams. I can’t tell why, but I feel it in my bones; it’s the light, the smell, the extraordinary sense of space and all the little things as well. The dust and scuttle of the sheep when two or three are gathered together, it’s really beastly, but I shall smell it and hear it till I die.’Australia haunts his first ...”

“... They regarded the commandment ‘Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife’ as a caution light rather than a stop sign, coveting one another’s spouses like crazy. Updike would describe himself as a mini-Mailer, a stag among the herd of housewife does. For a time, the shifting combinations of partners produced quite a kaleidoscope. You couldn’t ...”

“... over the centuries has challenged common notions of the intelligible: the Earth moves; white light is compound; there are such things as atoms. But modern physics is special in this respect: not only does it confront us with a radical mismatch between the way things seem and the way things are; it stages a conflict between everyday and scientific ideas ...”

“... bars, slashing his way through video games and death-metal lyrics, encountering a time-travelling Donald Duck. Even stranger, as a figure embraced by both the far right and the left, El Cid has also come to stand as an emblem of democracy and pluralism. Berend is writing with deicidal intent: once the myth has been fully exposed to the ...”

“... the people he writes about, usually men who dress, as Woodward does, in dark suits, plain ties and light blue shirts, the better to be observed on TV – they never reveal much of themselves.What is known about Woodward? He’s a former navy man, who wrote several hundred articles on Watergate for the Washington Post with his colleague Carl Bernstein. The two ...”

“... But I also found myself wondering why Ammons isn’t read more outside the US and was reminded of Donald Davie’s 1975 review of Sphere, which he began by admitting that the idea of yet another ‘major visionary poet’ was an unattractive proposition. Still, he confessed, ‘I can’t refuse the evidence of my senses and my feelings – there wasn’t one ...”

“... lines necessary for one-point perspective; this allusion, along with others, is active in Harlem Light (1967), which juxtaposes, across panels from left to right, a flagstone square, a black and white area with an attached ruler, an abstract painting of three stacked rectangles, and a diagrammatic window.The crosshatch paintings, which preoccupied Johns for ...”

“... us that Ozy reached millions of people a month, but the sparsity of emails from readers and the light social media engagement suggested otherwise. I never stopped having to explain to sources what Ozy was. Publishers can lie to their employees with relative impunity, but lying to investors and advertisers is more risky. When Ben Smith of the New York ...”

“... we have pushed the door ajar,’ the Tory MEP Daniel Hannan writes dreamily. ‘A rectangle of light dazzles us and, as our eyes adjust, we see a summer meadow. Swallows swoop against the blue sky. We hear the gurgling of a little brook. Now to stride into the sunlight.’ This idyll comes early in Hannan’s What Next: How to Get the Best from ...”

“... who don’t believe in climate change because they were freezing cold this winter and trust what Donald Trump or Nigel Farage tells them on Fox News or the BBC. I mean the people who stand to gain from the Trump administration’s America First Energy Plan, which will increase US dependence on fossil fuels: more fracking, more coal-mining, more ...”

“... after white supremacists held their ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Donald Trump’s (then) chief of staff, John Kelly, went on Fox News and delivered a history lesson. ‘The lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War,’ he said. ‘Men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had ...”