“... rule. For sheer exhilaration, there is little in Jerusalem to equal the Dome of the Rock, whose anonymous Christian architect distilled centuries of Roman and Byzantine meditation on mathematical proportion and turned it into a cool assertion that Islam had rediscovered all that was best in Judaism and Christianity, but now had winnowed out the ...”

“... himself, by the time we meet him, into a man heroically determined, with the support of Alcoholics Anonymous, to lead a useful and loving life. If such a convergence sounds familiar – one younger man, one older; one street level, one upscale – the Ulysses echo is intentional, with a tension explicitly set up early on as to when, if ever, Hal and Gately ...”

“... In the film’s opening scene and twice more afterwards, the images made by his camera and by the anonymous videomaker’s are one and the same; every time Haneke returns to a stationary view of the house from the street we feel as if we are spying through a surveillance camera. Spying on what? The view from the street is perfectly public: it sees nothing ...”

“... the names of women in history who have been treated badly. He observed no hierarchy: sibyls, anonymous prisoners, celebrated writers each take their place, side by side, and Joan is one of them: She has been lobotomised with Naomi Ginsberg but she does not forget. She has been stoned in Khomeini’s brickyard but she does not forget. She has hung in a ...”

“... by the former British MI6 intelligence agent Christopher Steele, based on hearsay purchased from anonymous Russian sources. Amid prostitutes and golden showers, a story emerged: the Russian government had been blackmailing and bribing Donald Trump for years, on the assumption that he would become president some day and serve the Kremlin’s interests. In ...”

“... suspect reasons – including, perhaps, some of the men driven to vent their despair on anonymous forums – but the moment their unhappiness is transmuted into a rage at the women ‘denying’ them sex, rather than at the systems that shape desire (their own and others’), they have crossed a line into something morally ugly and confused. In her ...”

“... Times columnist David Brooks, recently blasted the CIA’s ‘bloodless compilations of data by anonymous technicians’ and praised those analysts who make ‘novelistic judgments’ informed by ‘history, literature, philosophy and theology’. Rumsfeld’s war on the rule-bound culture and risk aversion of the military reveals a deep antipathy to law ...”

“... his solitary excursion, and beaten within an inch of his life. Night fell. His body was carried by anonymous hands to the edge of the lake, whence it was transported by shikara across the water and deposited, torn and bleeding, on the deserted embankment of the canal which led to the gardens of Shalimar. At dawn the next morning a flower-vendor was rowing his ...”

“... Navy lieutenants John Rochfort and John Greaves. Waldstreicher attributes to her a very different anonymous poem, ‘Thoughts on Tyranny’, which considers British history up to the time of Charles I. Like most Bostonians, Wheatley was displaced by the War of Independence, leaving the city to stay with friends in Providence. She addressed a tribute to George ...”

“... describes him as ‘award-winning writer on The Wire’ – and might have difficulty remaining anonymous while gathering material, but there’s no lack of precedent for that. Truman Capote, strange and fluting, nevertheless persuaded dazed Midwesterners to talk, and Wolfe himself was hardly inconspicuous, languidly prowling Manhattan in his pale suit. In ...”

“... creaking, rustling, buzzing, crackling, scraping’. The city itself, fast-moving, unpredictable, anonymous, was a crucible of futurity. A piece Mondrian wrote describing the sounds of Paris in 1920 (reportedly, it gave the editor of De Nieuwe Amsterdammer ‘bad dreams’) reads like Joyce, if Joyce had been mashed into one of Russolo’s noise ...”

“... he describes as repressive, even murderous, our habitual ways of using words. ‘All dumb or anonymous psychic states have, owing to this error, been coolly suppressed; or, if recognised at all, have been named after the substantive perception they led up to, as thoughts “about” this object or “about” that, the stolid word about engulfing all ...”

“... is unpretentious and functional. A better class of scene-of-the-crime Polaroid, no mess. An anonymous set which can be abandoned or reconstituted as soon as the next move becomes necessary or desirable. Sallis’s office is forensic: images and files related to the various works in progress, and an answering-machine that stays on. Sallis, very ...”

“... closing poem, ‘High Tide’, a frightening meditation on the attempt at an ethical response to anonymous human misery. We begin in medias res as the poet sees a deranged homeless woman on the street: She held a sign that said Emergency [nothing else]. Handwritten in pencil on the corrugated strip of boxtop. Emergency (‘[all caps]’) is, so to ...”

“... he wrote with a colleague in February 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq. The piece quoted anonymous sources questioning White House estimates of Iraq’s WMD and thus Bush’s reason for going to war. ‘In light of subsequent events,’ Woodward says, ‘I should have pushed for a front-page story, even on the eve of war’: it’s as if this article ...”