“... to take their own cars with them. Readers eager for a feel of steamy, seamy Havana in the 1950s may feel English takes too long to get there, then skimps a little on the detail. But what he does offer provides plenty of scope for extrapolation. There was the legendary Tropicana, located in a jungle outside Havana, with its scantily clad dancers and lavish ...”

“... criminal law’, amounting to a war crime. But far from deterring Israeli actions, such statements may as well have been a ‘to do’ list for the IDF. The ICC prosecutor will be spoilt for choice.Israel responds that since Hamas’s declared intention is to destroy it, Israel’s right of self-defence extends to the destruction of Hamas, regardless of the ...”

“... being shot by a British firing squad. Connolly was one of the fifteen rebel leaders executed in May 1916 for their part in the Easter Rising, when at least 1200 rebels battled the British forces in Dublin for six days with the aim of establishing an Irish republic. The rebellion led to a wave of arrests, mainly of innocent people, as well as around 450 ...”

“... if sub rosa, drink with Maria.And then there are the teasing hints that unexpected things may happen – before we’re invariably let down. In the lead-up to the wedding Archie and Luke have a final confrontation, and Dolan presents us with three possible ways it could go. They fight; they part, sadly but wisely; they are interrupted by the phone ...”

“... or administer CPR. But his account of the discipline is anachronistic. Conceptual analysis may have been central to analytic philosophy in the mid-20th century, and there are doubtless still a few diehards. But, at least since Kripke, most philosophers have turned away from the analysis of concepts and towards the metaphysical investigation of things ...”

“... could be a little, well, shapelier. Don’t you wear a brassiere?’Her characters may express animus towards Freud, if they’re interested in him at all, but Taubes presents the father-daughter relationship as the original site of self-alienation. How can a girl develop a sense of self when confronted with a philosophical framework that turns ...”

“... First/Bunny died, then John Latouche,/then Jackson Pollock,’ Frank O’Hara reflects during a post-prandial stroll around midtown Manhattan in ‘A Step away from Them’, written in August 1956. Everyone knew Jackson Pollock and the lyricist John Latouche, but only insiders to the avant-garde coteries in which O’Hara moved would have known who Bunny was – especially since she published under the name V ...”

“... ceding of ground, Kunle is struck by a sense that ‘the cause he’s been unwillingly roped into may actually be a good one.’ But soon afterwards, conscious that the people now killing one another were good neighbours just a few weeks ago, ‘he feels a sudden force pulling him away from his resolve to stick with his comrades … And in the misery, the ...”

“... majority in the House in November 2026. Even a slight advantage gained through redistricting may have national implications because the Democrats’ lead in the polls is consistently small (around two points). Congressional maps are usually redrawn once every ten years, after each decennial census (the next one is in 2030). Mid-cycle redistricting does ...”

“... window glass and tapestries. This enthusiasm for foreign wares sometimes provoked unrest. On Evil May Day in 1517, London apprentices and journeymen, wound to fury by a campaign of xenophobic rhetoric, rioted in protest against a perceived influx of foreign craftsmen. Thomas Elyot complained in his Boke Named the Governour that the English did not encourage ...”

“... never mentioned or even alluded to. We see a date, 1938, written on a police statement, but this may have been a tease or a directorial slip-up, and in any case relates to something that had happened some years earlier. Undated time points up universal themes: the jolt of the uncanny, the frailty of the human psyche, the persistence of guilt and shame, the ...”

“... to other incubators and that prematurely born infants died during the transfer. This incident may have provoked some of the later charges.When I questioned the incubator story and Amnesty’s research and motives, there was a fairly predictable reaction. Amnesty officials stuck by their story, citing their diligence in cross-checking all such ...”

“... out who the man is whom he is really jealous of. Such is the superb end of the first act, and one may agree that a play which went on to show how he really did try to share his wife with his friend would be of greater interest: but the audience would not have stood it, as Joyce realised quite as well as Crommelynck.In the second and third acts Bruno is ...”

“... from the settlement they imposed on it. Wilson, heading the strongest of the winning powers, may have had his flaws, like Tsar Alexander before him, but in Ghervas’s view is entitled to imaginative sympathy. He was no less moved than the tsar by high religious and moral ideals, which in his case found expression in the covenant of a League of Nations ...”

“... have little or nothing to do with either the technical imperatives of interdependence – which may even have been less at mid-century than fifty years earlier – or the ethereal visions of a handful of federalist worthies. They were rather a product of the common disaster of the Second World War, when every nation-state between the Pyrenees and the North ...”