“... interested in stories for their own sake. She has returned to short stories after each novel, and may be more of a natural short-story writer than a novelist. Her novels are made up of incomplete fragments; different points of view. ‘Being Quick’ in The Whole Story and Other Stories describes a woman stranded on a broken-down train who decides to get off ...”

“... of the situation than an uncontested framing of the present alone can provide. Indeed, there may be further positions of moral opposition to add to the ones we have already accepted, including an opposition to military and police violence saturating Palestinian lives in the region, taking away their rights to mourn, to know and express their outrage and ...”

“... with capitalism might reflect on the value of his radical reformism: the capitalist apocalypse may not be just around the ...”

“... with Bordes when he wrote that ‘modern individualistic music, with its realism and emotionalism, may stir human feeling, but it can never create that atmosphere of serene spiritual ecstasy that the old music generates. It is a case of mysticism versus hysteria.’ Victoria’s Requiem was approved for use in the liturgy in a listing of 1904, though it ...”

“... historian to have travelled to the site to attempt to verify geographical details, although he may be the first to have run naked (nearly fifty years ago) around the excavated citadel of Troy VI, the layer most closely associated with the Mycenean Age, because Alexander the Great ran around what was then presumed to be the tomb of Achilles in 334 BC. He ...”

“... for Fabergé pieces didn’t endear them to the average citizen in pre-Revolutionary Russia, and may have contributed to the family’s murder. It’s hard not to see the Fabergé eggs as a metaphor for the Romanov family, that final, ostentatious flourish of European aristocracy: beautiful, hugely costly, useless, even silly. The Fabergé eggs were the end ...”

“... grown-ups in a playground, endure the chaos until the bell rings, resigned to the fact that this may come long after they are gone’. Watched over by a hyper-protective mother, Khaled is similarly cautious: he has ‘always been a careful angel’, as his father puts it. But one day in March 1980, the family hear Ramadan read out a short story on the ...”

“... in the appointment of trustees and in the workings of equality and diversity programmes may have ceased with their expulsion from power, but Nigel Farage still sets out to reclaim ‘our’ history.Lisa Nandy, the new culture secretary, has promised an end to culture wars and a more inclusive vision of the nation. But what does ‘progressive ...”

“... On​ 13 May 1397, the visitors came to Ruardean in Gloucestershire. They learned that Nicholas Cuthler was causing a scandal among his neighbours. He had not come to terms with his father’s death and was making strange claims: he went about in public saying that his father’s spirit still walked the village at night ...”

“... Reverse an Authoritarian Turn and Forge a Democracy for All’, is most surely a distortion. This may be America’s problem but in most parts of the world Levitsky and Ziblatt’s emphasis on ‘democratising our democracy’ and restoring majoritarian rule is the last thing liberal intellectuals want. Outside the US, liberals march under the banner of ...”

“... centre and at its furthest edges where the armies fought, less so in the regions in between. Some may find Gargola’s overall picture overdetermined, but he is broadly persuasive in finding a deep psychosocial basis for what looks like a pragmatic Roman approach to space, and also in locating it in very old ritual practices. One thing he largely ...”

“... came under attack. Dress inevitably became an issue at the opening of the Estates General in May 1789, when the clergy arrived in their variously coloured robes, the members of the Third Estate in sober black and the nobles in a kaleidoscope of costumes; an early speech by Mirabeau challenged the pernicious distinctions this created. In August 1790 the ...”

“... since. A schoolboy named Dick in the anonymous Elizabethan play July and Julian complains:Men may do what they list, God wot, and so cannot we,For if I laugh my father a wanton calls me,If I be sad, my mother saith I am dumplish and surly …Both my parents and masters handle me so ...”

“... to lean into globalisation while reneging on solidarity. From this act of radical self-harm we may not ...”

“... fostered through the pretence of personal revelation, but through a description of affects that we may feel have never been articulated before. It wasn’t supposed to be a therapeutic exercise: ‘The point is to make an experiment out of thought, to loosen up the tight knot of what’s satisfying, even if it means risking being not understood.’ It should ...”