“... to kill us?’ The answer to the follow-up question – why this lull? – lies in the coffin. We may have arrived at a possible response to the question about how to describe this oddly lyrical western. The boys go home to their mother, as if The Sisters Brothers was a tale about a family that went weirdly wrong and finally found its way back to ...”

“... come in the wake of break-ups. The lover – the bird or bard – has flown. The reader may very well think this is no bad thing. Williams’s leavers are all-rounders, shining, uncomplicated, confident, bossy creatures, ‘free to play or free to slack’, as Robert Lowell put it, the ‘or’ multiplying their already monstrous freedom. They are ...”

“... film, is Woodcock, so innocent and engaging at moments, so nasty and tyrannical at others, that we may find ourselves believing the character is a single person only because there is just the one actor. Vicky Krieps is Alma, an open-faced, rather plain woman who can look beautiful in the right light, whose peculiar gift is to be susceptible to Woodcock’s ...”

“... also about wanting or not wanting to leave. Cléo (Corinne Marchand) is a singer who is told she may have cancer, and we spend two hours of her life with her as she tries to deal with the thought. At one point we hear about Edith Piaf’s actual illness, but a lot of what matters, as always for Varda and her camera, has to do not with what happens but with ...”

“... quarrels and the musical had their day too (in Kramer vs. Kramer and All That Jazz), and we may feel that Roman Polanski’s Tess belongs to both old and new worlds, but still: it was a good year for otherness. This feeling is strongly supported by Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre, a careful reworking of and elaborate homage to F.W. Murnau’s ...”

“... from Buchenwald razed a public garden to create an open space suited to party rallies. On May Day 1937, Rudolf Hess laid the foundation stone of the Hall of the People’s Community, with standing room for two thousand. It is now a shopping centre. The huge administrative building for the local party remains, occupied by the Thuringian state ...”

“... receive a copy of the picture as soon as it was taken.) In the first of many such moments – this may in fact be the film’s undeclared main theme – the quiet scene of photographer and client is invaded by a mob. The theme being: you think you’re alone or in a couple, but you’re not. Or: no one is ever alone. In this case a tickertape parade provides ...”

“... the public values of personal dignity, democracy and freedom. No wonder, then, that on 6 May, Donald Rumsfeld admitted that these particular photographs were just the ‘tip of the iceberg’, that there are stronger things to come, including videos of rape and murder. In early 2003, the US government, in a secret memo, approved a set of procedures ...”

“... The publicity for the Chinati Foundation warns against open-toed shoes and points out that from May to September, temperatures can reach 100°F. ‘Hats, sunglasses and sun block are always ...”

“... in the satisfaction of its own wants’. Marx combined with Parkinson, perhaps. Professor Kiernan may have no master-key, but he does have a model: a general picture of the relationship between society and the state in this period which distinguishes it from the late Middle Ages and also from the 18th century. Marxists describe the 16th and 17th centuries as ...”

“... scientific reasons at any given stage for deciding how these boundaries are to be drawn, but it may be accounted a philosophical task to bring these reasons to light. Having concluded that a theory is ‘a family of structures’, reserved the title of ‘appearances’ for ‘the structures which can be described in experimental and measurement ...”

“... life, at once real and imagined.In the large-scale Untitled (2021), a platypus with orange braids may be an animal or a woman or both – one dreaming of the other. In Drawing like the Elephant (2023), four children display their drawings to the viewer (or whoever is imagined in our place). Two of the children have sprouted walrus tusks; one has bright red ...”

“... vivid, large-scale photographs, currently on display at the Hepworth Wakefield (until 1 May). It’s the details that quicken the pulse. The way her hair falls; the way she cocks her hip to the side; the roll of her trouser cuff; fingers softly interlaced; the faint wrinkle of her dress; her pencil-thin eyebrows; the way the tendons in her forearm ...”

“... documents demonstrates that Marie’s chaplain wrote the work. De Amore’s date of composition may be half a century later than the period (the 1180s) favoured by Walsh: any time between 1174 and 1238 is possible. The very existence of the courts of love upon whose judgments Andreas is assumed to have drawn has been seriously doubted, while the equation of ...”

“... list the organisations with which I was associated that the FBI considered Communist fronts. Some may have been, but the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, the Congress of American Women, the Sleepy Lagoon Committee, the National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions, and the Civil Rights Congress were widely based liberal-left organisations. There is ...”