“... much virgin territory. Nauman’s excursion does not take us places we have never been before. We may admire the way he finds new twists in the path, but we know that others have camped where he is heading. The pleasure is in the little tug you feel when he peels away one of the preconceptions with which we bandage together the raw material of things seen and ...”

“... of the more than 14 million items that never reached their destinations between August 2004 and May 2005. According to the Royal Mail, 99.93 per cent of items are safely delivered. This means that nearly 60,000 letters and parcels go missing every day. Harvey was jailed for a year at the beginning of March. Pleading guilty to theft and delaying the delivery ...”

“... for initiating the project, shortly after Orwell’s death in 1950. The self-aggrandising Hunt may have exaggerated his own importance in the operation – possibly inventing the juicy detail that Orwell’s widow, Sonia, was wooed with the promise of meeting her favourite star, Clark Gable – but, as detailed by Daniel Leab in Orwell Subverted: The CIA ...”

“... together watching a well-worn video of When Harry Met Sally; and the second sentence means: ‘I may like crummy romantic comedies, but I’m still kind of practical.’ When rejecting a marriage proposal, by contrast, it is important always to begin ‘Dear Arnold’. This way the unwelcome gentleman will realise you don’t even know his name, so ...”

“... shudder and tremble a little in a high wind, rain will still rattle on tin roofs (although you may hear it less now insulation is better) and Wellington houses will still be scattered, broadcast like seed over the mounded hills.The high-rise buildings in the middle of town squat heavily, hinting at the muscle which will hold them together when an ...”

“... Manuel Moreno; the pale-faced man beside him, waiting, it would seem, for the session to be over, may be the composer Luigi Boccherini (Don Luis was keen on music as well as on hunting and science). The man smiling out at us, like a child looking to catch the eye of a parent when he should be attending to his part in the school play, is Boccherini’s ...”

“... organisation, which sat on its hands during dozens of atrocities. Milosevic may decide that his best course is to capitalise on the role of the bit-players – Douglas Hurd, as Deputy Chairman of NatWest Markets, for instance, whose company provided Milosevic with the revenue from the privatisation of Serbian telecoms, money which funded ...”

“... that would support it.This distinction, between building up to a sensation and working from it, may sound like something of greater importance to the artist than to the viewer, but that’s not how it turns out. Instead, because the desired effect is preconceived, the more recent paintings are invested with a noticeably lower degree of tension. The cycle of ...”

“... It may be that by the time this issue of the LRB is published, the monarchy-obliterating secret that lurks on Fleet St will have been revealed and the last of the Windsors will be preparing for exile in Bermuda, or some other far-flung corner of their former realm: Port Stanley, say, or Balmoral. Paul Burrell will have packed their bags for them one last time ...”

“... equipment within the next three years. The deadline for ‘CALEA-compliance’ was 14 May 2007. And so a new industry was born, known in the trade as ‘Intelligence Support Systems’, complete with its own annual conference. If you’re in Dubai next February, drop by. Since there’s money to be made, panels cover such areas as ‘Electronic ...”

“... trillion – a ‘moderate estimate’ – and ‘the meter is still ticking.’ Britain may have been spared Bush’s ‘policy of fiscal profligacy’, but the increased oil bill alone will cost it more than £3 billion by 2010. The hardest figure to establish is the cost to Iraq. It doesn’t help that the country is governed – if that is the ...”

“... for any given applicant. The US government admitted one Iraqi refugee in April and one in May. Sixty-three were admitted in June. For 2007 so far, the total is 190, but even this number is misleading, since all but 17 were backlogged cases of Iraqis who fled before the war began. In the UK, 88 per cent of Iraqi asylum applications were rejected last ...”

“... her own responses, an abstinence that now looks like a period attribute. Describing an early May Day procession, she indicates long histories of pain, slog, deprivation and expectation. Women,red-clad, walking under an arch of banners, greeting a democracy that had recognised the justice of their claim to citizenship … the starved workers who had paid ...”

“... show that, no matter how heterogeneous or artificial the boundaries of any given European colony may have been, they continue to exist today. Of the 52 countries in Africa, the vast majority arbitrary fabrications of rival imperialist powers, just one – Sudan – has failed to persist within the same frontiers as an independent state. In Asia, the same ...”