“... conventionally permitted? His great fear is that he will have to settle for the possible, which may not be much. Sabbath is 64, and he thinks his sexual end is nigh. Sex is an obsession and a principle with him, an instrument of perpetual misrule. He’s even more tiresome about erections and insertions and emissions than Portnoy was, and the book gets ...”

“... too, the hideous Globocnik. He was also a real figure, captured by a British Army patrol in May 1945, whereupon he bit on a cyanide capsule and died. So he couldn’t have smashed Xavier March’s hand with a baseball bat in 1964! The whole thing has been a feat of gloomy make-believe. We needn’t grieve for Zavie any more. Is this the fatal weakness ...”

“... were copied by Christian scribes. As any student of Beowulf knows, however, filleting out what may be a remnant of pre-Christian culture is a difficult task.To reach the magical islands of Irish and Norse literature, all you need is a boat and a thirst for God or adventure, or both. In the earliest Greek texts, Egeler argues, the inhabitants of the ...”

“... an education is admirable, her belief in its transformative power seems naive. Learning English may seem like a good investment but the cost is isolation from her Shona-speaking family. And books may be a source of enlightenment but not when her O-level syllabus is so narrowly focused. It’s both comic and tragic that ...”

“... Of all​ the novels responding to the Trump presidency, Richard Powers’s Bewilderment may come closest to pure propaganda. Set in a slightly worse and slightly more technologically advanced version of the present – popular adjustments in recent fiction – Bewilderment takes aim at the administration’s xenophobia and persecution of foreigners, its anti-science and anti-environmental policies, and its attempts to undermine democracy ...”

“... worth holding on to. As one developer put it: ‘We will see some scammy projects, but there may be some gems with actual utility.’ A feature of NFTs that may make the gatekeepers superfluous is the option for artists to attach royalty clauses to their work. In this scenario, every time something is resold, the ...”

“... Sancho and Bukayo Saka after their misses in the penalty shootout convinced him otherwise. ‘I may have underestimated how close to the surface the racism still is,’ he said, before getting off the sofa and onto one knee. He delivered the rest of his monologue from the floor. ‘I actually now get it. So much so that I think, you know, we should all take ...”

“... want to grab, or climb on, that make you laugh out loud, that snag in the memory.)This stiffness may be a result of the curators’ desire to showcase her less well-known but more ambitious projects over the beloved Nanas, and to dispel the impression of an artist too upbeat, too accessible, too feminine to be taken seriously. But it was never sunniness or ...”

“... therefore the only leverage available to Crown Representatives) is to report anything that ‘may present a risk’ to the government.The privileged access given to business has also had the effect of tilting the playing field against those other social interest groups that must compete for the government’s attention. And it has encouraged increasingly ...”

“... the active line comes into being. ‘It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly.’ The camera may appear to survey a terrain. But there is nothing to stop the viewer’s eye going out for a walk along the tracks laid down by the countless overlapping material histories embedded within it.Klee also imagined a different kind of active line: one that is ...”

“... makes sense and can only be good. But for me the UK Border is a threat not a reassurance. Theresa May presumably felt a deep affinity with the Border Force when she was home secretary. She’s someone who likes things to be well defined. She has her red lines. She’s the exception to the adage ‘Nomen est omen’: she should have been called Theresa ...”

“... easier now that I’m in southern Spain, where I snorkel regularly at my local beach. From mid-May to mid-October the temperatures are fine. For the rest of the year I only do the odd cold plunge into the sea and swim for a few minutes at most. This year I decided to try to snorkel all year round and I keep going for anything from five to twenty ...”

“... care less. ‘It’s good to kind of go along with your life,’ he told Entertainment Weekly in May as the first episodes went out, adding that he had spent the première ‘in my woodshop’, working on a table to have at his side while eating Parmesan crackers or practising transcendental meditation. At first glance the new series was just as disconnected ...”

“... in the same area?’ ‘That’s right, driving in that area is very dangerous: lock the door you may drown, unlock the door you may be stabbed.’ ‘We have several colleagues living near there, don’t we?’ Indeed, three of us live in the same civil servants’ community, only a block away from the Guangqumen ...”

“... found.’ Saying what the truth of one’s life was, and curating the manner of its glorification, may well be the last big decisions in a life of indecision. When my father died, his dream of posterity blossomed, and the things he wanted to be true about himself suddenly found theatrical expression. He was never politically active, but the route to his ...”