“... in the civil rights movement, had been rocked by protests the year before Lorde arrived, which may have influenced the panel’s choice of poet. But if she was selected for being less radical than other more famous poets, the decision backfired: at Tougaloo, she became involved in a political community for the first time since the Rosenberg campaign. One ...”

“... its mind, arguing that the rebel corridor was provisioning the army garrison. When I returned in May, the rebel patrols had been replaced by checkpoints manned by RSF soldiers. Near one of them, the roadside was strewn with open suitcases, clothes and schoolbooks. Witnesses said that all civilians leaving El Fasher had their possessions searched by the RSF ...”

“... me, ‘the leadership of your liberation movement is also the leadership of your bantustans.’In May, Fatah held its Eighth General Congress in Ramallah, a decade after the last such gathering. The conference was supposed to inject new blood into the party, which controls both the PA and the PLO. But attendees were handpicked by the Fatah leadership, and in ...”

“... Michael L. Trujillo writes that ‘the significance of the Oñate icon for many Oñate supporters may be found in Nuevomexicanos’ own subjugation to the most powerful of the three major ethnic/racial groups in New Mexico: Anglos.’ Which is to say that the population of the state consists largely of three waves of people, the second invading and exploiting ...”

“... pitch among members of the ‘resistance’. Yet this desperation to keep his reputation warm may indicate the American liberal elite’s waning capacity for mythmaking rather than the resuscitation of the ‘liberal international order’.George Packer, arguably the most renowned American journalist of his generation, is more aware of the dangers of ...”

“... to ‘please donate £3, £5, or whatever you can afford.’Andy Burnham, who as recently as May said he was in favour of a cap on donations, spent his first day in Parliament as prime minister trying to prevent a vote on an amendment to the Representation of the People Bill, proposed by the Labour MP Stella Creasy, that would have introduced a £100,000 ...”

“... of the little magazine, half a century later, was a more rough and ready affair. The Little Review may have been banned for printing literary depictions of ejaculation, but unlike Sanders’s publication, it did not have actual spurting cocks scrawled on the contents page.With its crude Courier typeface, Fuck You was the publishing equivalent of a punk 7-inch ...”

“... seems to matter.’ Confident agnosticism seems to be the method here. The coup took place on 27 May. Nito Alves, the main golpista, and his fellow conspirator, José ‘Zé’ Van Dúnem, tried to seize control of the MPLA while keeping the president in power. Six days earlier, they’d been expelled from the party in a whirl of recriminations. Alves had ...”

“... and the handsome profits made by Quaker companies like Barclay’s and Lloyd’s banks, Bryant and May matches, Swan Hunter shipbuilders and Cadbury itself. In Victorian Britain, Quaker businessmen had competitive advantages. Ron Davies, in his biography of George Stephenson (Quakers were early financiers of the railways), talks about a Quaker ‘moral ...”

“... as by her profile. She seems to be looking down at Patrick, though he’s a head taller. Hassall may have used the 1832 miniature by William Thomson of a 22-year-old Gaskell, or perhaps Richmond’s 1851 drawing (there isn’t as much difference between them as twenty years ought to make). She may have made Gaskell up ...”

“... as one. Abdullah, though a Koranic scholar, was resolutely secular in his politics. The Hindus may have been a tiny minority of the population, but he knew it would be fatal for Kashmiri interests if the Brahmins were ignored or persecuted. The confessional Muslims led by Mirwaiz Yusuf Shah broke away – the split was inevitable – accusing Abdullah of ...”

“... doesn’t want to know any more, and nature proceeds to peel you open. The truth, when we find it, may turn out to be less ‘moral’, less totalitarian. Meanwhile, however, that is what it looks like. Judging by the faces and voices of the victims, that is what it feels like too. Aids starts in the 1970s. Here’s Edmund White, describing the San Francisco ...”

“... includes the right to look gay, to be gay in public, and in Milk’s view this look and this act may sometimes be everything. When Scott and others, later in the film, suggest that not everyone has to leave the closet, that privacy too is an important right, Milk says eloquently: ‘At this time, in this place, privacy is the enemy.’ This time, this ...”

“... be transferred to the print; some processes add strength or regularity to drawn lines. Lithography may discourage fumbling, but essentially the plate gives back what it is given. Bellows’s Dance in a Madhouse, although it has its origin in a drawing made ten years earlier, sustains the urgency of marks made by a committed observer. In Charles Sheeler’s ...”

“... of the US and Israel clearly on a collision course over the settlements, this racist fever may infect the whole coalition. If one goes to sleep with a dog, one should not be surprised to wake up with fleas: those who elected such a government, and even more so those who joined it, should not be surprised by the course of ...”