“... half that expanse, around eighty million hectares, is preserved as ‘inhabited landscapes’. It may be the case, as many ecological socialists argue, that capitalism’s logic of accumulation and ceaseless technological innovation places unsustainable stress on the environment, generating an ever widening rift between humans and nature. Hecht is more ...”

“... numbersAnd so we scattered as instructed, meFor Route 110, Cookstown via Toome and Magherafelt.It may be Charon and the Underworld in disguise, but a new peace is held up against an old peace; terror, murder, sectarianism and occupation all feel a little more remote.Listen to Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss Seamus Heaney in their Close Readings series on ...”

“... by Lerner) is a gesture towards intimacy between author and reader, a gesture after Whitman. It may be presumptuous for a white, male scion of the professional American middle classes to offer a fictionalised version of his life as representative of a larger public. It’s certainly presumptuous for almost any literary novelist to imagine he’d have enough ...”

“... let the man sit by a good fire and make him drink of the potion until he falls asleep. Then he may safely be operated upon.’ This concoction would have been very dangerous if made up wrongly: herbalism was and is still bedevilled by the difficulty of estimating the strength of its constituents. The levels of pharmacologically active substance in herbal ...”

“... with the view of progress Rushdie attributes to him: ‘The battle between reason and superstition may be seen as mankind’s long adolescence, and the triumph of reason will be its coming of age.’ Never too shy to put himself in illustrious company (‘Joseph Anton’ was the codename he adopted, aligning himself with Conrad and Chekhov, after Khomeini’s ...”

“... and swamped with heavy traffic revolving round the Odium Cinema. Unsatisfactory as much of this may be, and every scene has the same beggar in the costume of the age, the worst is yet to come. In ‘The Drayneflete of Tomorrow’ there are no human figures. The church has been preserved as a cultural monument, but the rest is a panorama of ‘Communal ...”

“... began, he neither acknowledged the protesters’ demands nor regretted the killings. By May 2011, a fully fledged armed uprising had begun, with defectors from the Syrian army returning fire at the security forces. Soon the defectors, now organised as the Free Syrian Army, faced increased violence from the regime, which began using heavy weaponry ...”

“... and followers. We make shopping lists and bucket lists and reading lists; wishlists of DVDs we may one day watch or seeds we hope to plant and catalogues of countries we have visited or books we have read. To go to a shop armed with a scrap of paper that says ‘eggs, milk, pears’ is to believe that you have a script and are the one in charge, even if ...”

“... twenty years has tended to confirm what we already knew about Stalin, but it also suggests that we may have been asking the wrong questions. At issue is not whether he was a ‘weak leader’ or a man ‘responding to events’. The major decisions of his administration – on collectivisation, the Great Terror and upping the tempo of the Cold War – were all ...”

“... is more a matter of style than substance, of tone than content. The ‘hump’ of the profession may not have raged about whites’ inalienable ‘right to their racial heritage’, but Vitalis could find no white international relations scholar in this era who directly challenged white privilege by supporting equal citizenship rights and colonial ...”

“... his explained, that, ‘if one emphasises too much that it is a crime to kill a whole people, it may weaken the conviction that it is already a crime to kill one individual.’ The counterargument was Lemkin’s, that ‘the focus on individuals was naive, that it ignored the reality of conflict and violence,’ and that ‘the law must reflect true motive ...”

“... Kierkegaard and Merleau-Ponty, and plausibly suggests that Sartre’s writing on Giacometti may have stimulated de Kooning’s interest in him, which is visible in the sculpture he began making himself around 1969. The new medium gave de Kooning new ways of not stopping – ‘with clay, I cover it with a wet cloth and come back to it the next morning ...”

“... bachelor pad. The scheme was denied planning permission, but the drawings were published in the May 1962 issue of the magazine. The ‘almost cartoonishly modern’ three-storey building, as Preciado describes it, was to have a Miesian glass façade, under which a basement garage would harbour a bright blue Porsche. It was to be built around an indoor pool ...”

“... you to achieve it.’ Bad Blood wasn’t written to be a parable for our current moment, but it may as well have ...”

“... embezzled by insiders through hidden offshore entities registered in tax havens. Some of the money may also have gone towards Putin’s first presidential campaign in 2000, which probably seemed an excellent investment at the time. Such schemes comprise what the journalist Oliver Bullough calls kleptocracy. Moneyland, his impassioned but at times specious ...”