“... texts on nursing, childcare and social work. (Cammock put together a similar reading table in her Turner Prize-winning installation The Long Note from 2019, a project that examined the history of women’s activism in Derry.)But who is to say that things other than sounds can’t be listened to? In her voiceover narration, Cammock quotes Tina Campt, whose ...”

“... Holocaust: the Stolpersteine, or ‘stumbling stones’, set in the ground in their thousands to mark the names of the murdered in the places where they once lived; the Holocaust Memorial near the Brandenburg Gate and its subterranean museum; the thousands of other reminders all over the country of the evils done in the name of Germany ...”

“... by Wyndham Lewis and Faulkner); mess is floating vegetables or gutted fish (in a painting by Turner), rumpled bedclothes (in a painting by Courbet), stains, especially bloodstains (in the essays of Pater). Mess, according to Trotter, has both a politics and a poetics – that is, it is related to issues of social hierarchy and social codes (‘the ways ...”

“... in a report for the Council for British Archaeology by Barrie Trinder, Jamie Quartermaine and Rick Turner. The need for a new road between Holyhead and London became apparent with the Act of Union of 1800, which unified the parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland and required the members for Irish constituencies to travel regularly between the two capital ...”

“... to know something about the history of painting. Disappointingly, the English 19th century after Turner seemed to be beneath the girlfriend’s notice, and when we walked around the Russell-Cotes one vacation, I found myself beginning to feel uncomfortable with the derision she clearly felt for most of what was in the museum, however snide I had been about ...”

“... known as King Philip’s War, Reverend Hope Atherton was the chaplain accompanying Captain William Turner’s militia on their march to an Algonquian encampment near Deerfield, Massachusetts in the Connecticut River Valley. There they ambushed the sleeping tribe, slaughtered some of them and drove others into the river, which swept them over the waterfall ...”

“... without upsetting Britain’s prospects on the Cambo oilfield, Jet Zero, the Whitehaven coal mine, Mark Carney’s fantasy-football $130 trillion Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, and the reported five-hundred-plus fossil-fuel lobbyists in attendance, as well as Claire O’Neill, his predecessor as the COP president, who after Boris Johnson had her ...”

“... to the Galaxy after a Ford Prefect car, but a painstakingly careful dovetailing, in which you must mark all the detail of the separations even as you marvel at the join, and one which is replicated across the structure of Mason & Dixon. This is done zeugmatically, halfway through single sentences, fully exploiting the magnificent Augustan caesura which dots ...”

“... traces the holy sign of the dollar over the desolate earth. The conclusion to the novel does not mark the end of the book, however. It is followed, first, by Rand’s own About the Author sketch. ‘My personal life,’ she says, ‘is a postscript to my novels; it consists of the sentence: “And I mean it.”’ She concedes that she was born in ...”

“... French. Perhaps there is a lot to be said in favour of America after all. Does this correspondence mark a moment of significant change in the history of that anti-Americanism so often said to be traditional in France? The Rise and Fall of Anti-Americanism prints the proceedings of a symposium devoted to this question (the original French edition first appeared ...”

“... English tradition of watercolour’ meant the tradition that preceded and had been swept aside by Turner; the cool, structural watercolours descended from travellers’ records and scientific drawings. Painting as design, painting as report. Ravilious liked improbable juxtapositions. Doing war artist duty on board HMS Highlander in 1940, he wrote about the ...”

“... full dignity, appeared when ‘Defund the Police’ was the Black Lives Matter demand; Nat Turner, leader of an 1831 slave revolt in Virginia, is shown, axe in hand, before his master’s severed head. (This formidable panel stands out among works that otherwise hold violent or erotic content at one remove.) Nobody going to the Royal Academy is told ...”

“... far as I can tell, from ‘Black to the Future’, an essay published in 1994 by a white critic, Mark Dery. ‘Why do so few African Americans write science fiction?’ is the question it asks, though the bulk of the essay consists of interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, Tricia Rose. The word is now much used when talking about the interest so many ...”

“... seedling that must be watered, and sheltered, and sunned, and grieved, sounds like socialism,’ Mark Greif wrote in a Harper’s tribute to Jameson when he died last year. It sounds like socialism, but it twists and bends for ever, like a screensaver, far beyond the horizon of history, on a laptop outside time.There really is a ‘cave shaped like the ...”

“... v. Master of Fine Arts) and their perceived objects of study (‘literature’ v. ‘fiction’). Mark McGurl’s The Programme Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing, a study of Planet MFA conducted from Planet PhD, might not strike the casual reader as an interdisciplinary bombshell, but the fact is that literary historians don’t write ...”