“... after the colonial era. Yet Keïta’s work is remarkable for its lack of intrusiveness. Subjects may be on their mettle, in complicated ways, but they aren’t up for examination, or sitting for an ethnographic inventory. The customers led the way. They were paying for a record, in a single, dignified image, of what they imagined themselves or their ...”

“... but realised soon enough that wood is unobtainable on the grass steppe (Mongolians may well find wooden sculpture over-expressive). There were several live events. A Swiss artist contributed an enormous kite to carry a ceremonial ‘gift’, a canister of food and drink, to Altan Ovoo. A team of six men hoisted it into the air, and though it ...”

“... and film clips, but probably he is only externalising what was really there. If anything, Davis may have been angrier than Cheadle makes him. He limped from a degenerative hip condition, taking all kinds of painkillers, lots of cocaine, and drinking heavily – ‘Heinekens and cognac’, as he says. But then he has his memories, and in this film we have ...”

“... unmarked; the government’s only official acknowledgment of it came on the following day, 17 May, when identical editorials in the party mouthpieces the People’s Daily and the Global Times ran under the headline ‘50th Anniversary – Remembrance Should Not Be Extreme’. Fan was a small child during the Cultural Revolution. At the age of nine he ...”

“... he is a member of Scottish CND and a former board member of Friends of the Earth Scotland. He may prove capable of tapping into a growing sense that the SNP is replicating the triangulation and managerialism that alienated so many Scottish voters from New Labour. But the national question remains a sticking point. He must hope that Scotland’s folk ...”

“... many directions at once. The long poem has already announced that it’s going to take time, so we may be more than usually willing to stop and solve a series of puzzles on the way. The difficulty comes when the poem does not want to be slowed down. Urgency is at times muted by an overinvestment in observation: the ‘forelocks of a crocus’, the ‘penumbra ...”

“... level. ‘There was something in that cake that didn’t agree with him,’ he says of Raft. We may be laughing mainly at the hard work Persoff (or Wilder and his co-writer I.A.L. Diamond) put into this lamentable pun, but surely the actual differences between the uses (rather than the meanings) of ‘agree’ are important here. There is something so mild ...”

“... that’s Blind Willie McTell. And might it now be possible to try your patience further I said may I be permitted, reader, majesty, to tax your patience further and find a form of words for how it felt to see –          after the bailiffs had fucked off          with a truck load of furniture, indoor slides for the ...”

“... They have all come to nothing. I don’t want to have her dumped, destroyed, melted, or whatever may happen, without giving you a chance to say a final word.The university failed to find a solution, so the exasperated insurance company agreed to give Diana to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which paid for her restoration. The emblem of the Gilded Age, of a ...”

“... for a poet who ‘appears to have been born in 1870/and schooled in 1689’, a feeling that may account for Ní Chuilleanáin’s more Jacobite tendencies. Few poets’ work has more visions of lost realms and kings o’er the water, held tight in the embrace of a history that forgets nothing without ever properly getting started: ‘no unformed ...”

“... account in 1356, that it had a neck ‘twenty cubytes long [about thirty feet] … he may loken over a gret high hous.’ (As Mandeville is himself a fictional appellation for an unknown man, some laxity in measurements is to be expected.) But though so tall, they are hospitable to the small. They have been known to host tiny yellow-billed ...”

“... in two recent columns in the New York Times. In the first of these, he recounted his memories of 2 May 1998:Immediately after the Senate ratified Nato expansion, I called George Kennan, the architect of America’s successful containment of the Soviet Union. Having joined the State Department in 1926 and served as US ambassador to Moscow in 1952, Kennan was ...”

“... you are to support the queen. In June 1977, two weeks after official African Liberation Day (on 25 May), Howe and the community in Notting Hill celebrated an older, and perhaps truer, meaning of ‘jubilee’, going back to the Jewish Scriptures, where the yovel, a trumpet made from a ram’s horn, was sounded at the start of every fiftieth year to signal that ...”

“... no mistakes, just happy accidents’ – are filed here under ‘unintentional’, but while Ross may not have called his style ASMR, he knew what he was doing. The truly unintentional clips are curiosities, but it’s hard to say what exactly connects the rhythmic hum of a sewing machine, the crackle of tinfoil and advertisements for flat-pack furniture ...”

“... Network, at which point it would have been safe to bet on the abolition which followed in 1970. It may be that future Whiteheads will see this not as an event final in itself, but rather as a step towards the now threatened total dissolution of the BBC. At the time, the process of diminution and final abolition seemed catastrophic, a matter for organised ...”