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O filth, O beastliness

Elspeth Barker, 8 October 1992

Catullus 
by Charles Martin.
Yale, 197 pp., £22.50, July 1992, 0 300 05199 9
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... view to proving that they were arranged by Catullus himself, and not, as is often claimed, by some unknown posthumous editor. They are set out in three groups, according to length and metre. The first 60 poems, which are fairly short, are written in a variety of metres and generally described as the polymetrics. In the centre of the book is a series of long ...

At the National Gallery

Nicola Jennings: Bartolomé Bermejo, 12 September 2019

... trained in Flanders, the artistic centre of the Burgundian Netherlands. Van Eyck’s work was not unknown to Valencian painters, but no other Spanish artist of this period achieved anything like Bermejo’s mastery of Netherlandish technique, and nothing is known about the only two Flemings living in Valencia who could perhaps have trained him. The Prado ...

Short Cuts

David Motadel: The Crimean Tatars, 17 April 2014

... Soviet Union began to falter. After the end of the Cold War, Ukraine gave the Tatars a previously unknown freedom. It is that freedom that is now at ...

Consider the Giraffe

Katherine Rundell, 19 November 2020

... he may loken over a gret high hous.’ (As Mandeville is himself a fictional appellation for an unknown man, some laxity in measurements is to be expected.) But though so tall, they are hospitable to the small. They have been known to host tiny yellow-billed oxpeckers on their bodies: the small birds remove ticks from their skin, and clean the food from ...

American Manscapes

Richard Poirier, 12 October 1989

Manhood and the American Renaissance 
by David Leverenz.
Cornell, 372 pp., $35.75, April 1989, 0 8014 2281 7
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... that ‘I take it for granted that their thinking’ – he is referring also to Thoreau – ‘is unknown to the culture whose thinking they worked to found (I mean culturally unpossessed, unassumable among those who care for books, however possessed by shifting bands of individuals), in a way it would not be thinkable for Kant and Schiller to be ...

Europe’s War

Jeremy Harding: Kosovo, 29 April 1999

... the Macedonian proposition that refugees be driven to Skopje airport and shoved on aeroplanes to unknown destinations, airport officials donned their masks before the refugees were even off the buses. When they came through the metal detectors and the young men were frisked, the officials added surgical gloves to their repertoire of insults. As one busload ...

Is it still yesterday?

Hilary Mantel: Children of the Revolution, 17 April 2003

The Lost King of France 
by Deborah Cadbury.
Fourth Estate, 352 pp., £18.99, October 2002, 1 84115 588 8
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... The authorities deployed bayonets and firearms. At least twenty rioters were killed, and an unknown number injured on both sides. Three young men were hanged for public order offences. The police, speculating wildly to draw attention from themselves, blamed the riots on organised crime, or on persons unknown – men ...

Other Eden

Amit Chaudhuri, 15 September 1988

Tigers, Durbars and Kings: Fanny Eden’s Indian Journals 1837-1838 
edited by Janet Dunbar.
Murray, 202 pp., £13.95, April 1988, 0 7195 4440 8
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... in an Irish jaunting car.’ And it can express the weariness and confusion of travelling through unknown terrain: at such times, it is a form of tolerance of the strange country and of one’s own unsuspected weaknesses. Interestingly, such entries have that knowing bewilderment we associate with Kafka: the unsettling experience of alienation from one’s ...

Bringers of Ill Luck and Bad Weather

Penelope Fitzgerald: Anne Enright, 2 March 2000

What Are You Like 
by Anne Enright.
Cape, 257 pp., £10, March 2000, 0 224 06063 5
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... shirt like that, she had wanted one very much, but she had never had one. The photo is of her unknown twin. Berts had told the nuns at the Stella Maris Home that he could not manage to look after the both of them; the second daughter, Rose, would have to be offered for adoption. At this point Enright is faced, like all tellers of tales about twins, with ...

Writing about it

Robert Souhami, 19 March 1981

Conquering Cancer 
by Lucien Israel, translated by Joan Pinkham.
Penguin, 269 pp., £2.25, January 1981, 0 14 022276 6
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... which surround breast cancer are an example of these difficulties. The cause of the disease is unknown, although many factors, including geographical, reproductive and social influences, have been shown to produce a slight increase in risk. Attempts at early detection are still being evaluated, and it is not yet clear what benefit ‘screening’ will ...

History’s Revenges

Peter Clarke, 5 March 1981

The Illustrated Dictionary of British History 
edited by Arthur Marwick.
Thames and Hudson, 319 pp., £8.95, October 1980, 0 500 25072 3
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Who’s Who in Modern History, 1860-1980 
by Alan Palmer.
Weidenfeld, 332 pp., £8.50, October 1980, 0 297 77642 8
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... merely in office at the time. This is three lines less than Bonar Law, dubbed by Asquith as the unknown prime minister, which proportionately must make Russell practically unheard-of. Such are the revenges of history, or at least of historians. Not that Asquith comes off much better when his 12 lines are measured against Lloyd George’s 92, nor even ...

In Simferopol

Juliane Fürst, 20 March 2014

... The dormitory had been built in the 1980s. Cockroaches were everywhere, even lukewarm water was unknown and gas was available only at certain times. Katya came from a military family in Sevastopol. Her father, a retired navy officer, was living in Rostov on Don in order to get a Russian pension, which was much higher than the Ukrainian one. When I knew ...

Trial’s End

Madeleine Schwartz, 21 July 2022

... solely on feeling. But I was struck, leaving the courtroom for the final time, by how much remains unknown, unresolved.*The first half of the trial gave voice to the victims of the attacks; in the second half, the court looked more carefully at the accused. But the people whom one would most wish to hear from were absent. We can’t hear from Samy Amimour, who ...

Freddie Gray

Adam Shatz, 21 May 2015

... other than that he was a young black male. They made eye contact, and he ran, for reasons unknown. The officers arrested him and placed him face down. Unable to breathe, he asked for an inhaler, to no avail. The officers found a sliding knife on him, which is legal to carry, but charged him with possession of a switchblade, which isn’t. He was then ...

At the British Museum

John-Paul Stonard: ‘Edvard Munch: Love and Angst’, 6 June 2019

... of his depictions of women is particularly evident in the prints. One lithograph portrait of an unknown woman, breasts bared, navel impossibly high, is titled Woman with Red Hair and Green Eyes: Sin. Munch’s women loll around on beds with hangovers or try to entrap poor frightened men with their long red (danger!) hair. They seem to be ciphers for his own ...

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