“... intercourse to days of the month when she was most likely to conceive, she took Vitamin E, drank rose-hip tea, and went to a hypnotist and after that an acupuncturist, all to no avail. Her body maintained the relentless, pulsing, bleeding course it had become so accustomed to. When Tania was thirty-six, and worn out by hope disappointed, she gave up. ‘I ...”

“... the virtues of The Book History Reader is that it brings such continuities to light, pairing Mark Rose’s densely particularised history of copyright law with Foucault and Barthes on authorship, or Janice Radway’s lovingly detailed reconstruction of the Book-of-the-Month Club’s marketing strategies with Stanley Fish’s aggressively perverse model of ...”

“... found it by accident,’ Werner writes, ‘in the Amherst College Library, when it fell (rose?) out of an acid-free envelope. If I had not held it lightly in my hands, I would never have suspected the manner in which it was assembled … Look at it here, flying on the page, vying with light.’ Behold, Werner’s sacramental tone urges, a saint’s ...”

“... sceptical about this too. Her diary for 9 November 1890 documented inviting over the mind-curer Susan Bowles for some ‘fun’. ‘She bade me shut my eyes,’ Alice recorded, ‘and say over to myself: “I am a child of God and as such pure, perfect and without flaw!” My mind of course began skipping about the horizon.’ As ever, Alice, like the girl ...”

“... part in it. Then Douglas Carswell, the Tory backwoodsman who has tabled a motion of no confidence, rose and demanded that time be made available for a debate. ‘It’s not a substantive motion,’ the Speaker replied. ‘Oh yes it is,’ came voices from all sides. Extraordinary. I’ve never seen the Speaker heckled before. It was like watching Ceausescu’s ...”

“... into summary and symbolism. Thoughts of Ruskin revive at this refusal of the pathetic fallacy; and Susan Sontag’s arguments against metaphor find a friend.This poem is the last piece in a volume called Sprachgitter, and that name helps us quite a bit, even if it does contain a metaphor. A Gitter is a grid or grating or lattice or mesh; a street ...”

“... Vietnam experience in terms of a sinister illness, could almost be subtitled, with apologies to Susan Sontag, ‘Vietnam and its Metaphors’. In their attempt to answer the intractable ‘why’ of the massacre, Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim sense that the contributory factors they painstakingly assemble don’t quite amount to a reason, and reach for the ...”

“... to be up to, but her poetry cannot help taking itself too seriously to mean this, even under the rose. The poem is certainly both memorable and moving, but its message tells us more about Mrs Browning than about poetry and poets. Art was certainly something that removed her from life, but in a different sense to the one she intended. Margaret Forster may ...”

“... PAC has already received more than $56 million from crypto donors in the 2026 election cycle. Susan Hawley, executive director of Spotlight on Corruption, warns that Britain is a soft target. ‘We are looking at the Americanisation of British politics in front of our eyes,’ she told me. ‘We are seeing bigger and bigger amounts of money, from smaller ...”

“... with Herne the Hunter, who is mentioned in The Merry Wives of Windsor and reimagined in Susan Cooper’s children’s fiction), and even Epona the horse goddess, often thought to lie behind the horse-dominated stories of Rhiannon in the Welsh Mabinogion. Britain is notably lacking in evidence for the cult of Epona that was widespread ...”

“... up their photograph?’Although over the years his work has found fans in Beckett, Sartre and Susan Sontag, and although Poil de carotte was a set text in French schools into the 1960s, Renard remains a minor interest among Anglophone audiences. His wife, Marie, cut a third of the journal after his death in 1910; once she’d finished editing it for ...”

“... the milkman’s chop. His striving up the stair, the bottle’s chink, I rose from bed, lit a cigarette. And walked to the window ... It is perhaps the earnestness of this that is its most appealing feature, its implicit faith in poetry. It teems with echoes of Eliot, Yeats, Auden, Baudelaire, but, as in much of Eliot’s own earlier ...”

“... axis because, he said, the church could not ‘be conveniently built any other way’. Hawksmoor rose to the challenge and proved that it could be, although whether ‘conveniently’ is arguable. The problem was how to put an east-west church onto a north-south site and still provide the seating required. The plan Hawksmoor came up with is shown above.To ...”

“... biographer of Oliver Wendell Holmes and civil rights activist). Her older sister is the poet Susan Howe, her younger sister the artist Helen Howe Braider. This suggests a network of ramifying achievement and a complex burden of inheritance. On her paternal side, Howe was descended from two prominent New England families: the DeWolfes, who were slave ...”

“... Maglaque, Gazelle Mba, Azadeh Moaveni, Toril Moi, Joanne O’Leary, Niela Orr, Lauren Oyler, Susan Pedersen, Jacqueline Rose, Madeleine Schwartz, Arianne Shahvisi, Sophie Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Alice Spawls, Amia Srinivasan, Chaohua Wang, Marina Warner, Bee Wilson, Emily Witt Elif BatumanWhen​ Roe v. Wade was ...”