“... You unconsciously adapted Martin’s phrase.’ This isn’t a terrible theory, and Barker herself may believe it. In any case, Mallory, who has taken a shine to Sasha, hopes it will put the whole debacle into perspective, rendering him not, as he’d earlier feared, ‘the tragic fucking hero in a world – a landscape – composed entirely out of ...”

“... from Rotherham who joined Ukip aged eighteen, stood for Reform in local elections in Yorkshire in May 2022. He got 89 votes. In the Wakefield by-election the following month, Reform received less than 2 per cent of the vote. ‘There were only five of us working on that,’ Wood told me. ‘A lot of us were clamouring for Nigel to come back. We knew we could ...”

“... nor to have been known to anybody except the people who owned it. This is even stranger than it may at first seem. In the medieval world, all literary production depended on copying. Texts of many different genres – poems and songs, medical recipes, land conveyancing guides, prayers, charms, sermons – were in continual circulation, passed between ...”

“... but I’m mainly bewildered by how much they care. The biggest constraint on my son’s prospects may be that, as a tennis parent, I don’t have what it takes.When Roger Federer was eight, his parents moved him to a new club, Old Boys Basel, which had the best juniors programme in the city. ‘You could tell he had some talent,’ the head coach, Madeleine ...”

“... as fiction always must be for O’Connor, out of believable materials. Its logic requires that Mrs May end up symbolically raped and then killed (it is all one continuous act) by a loose bull on her farm – not even a registered ‘gentleman’ bull, either, but a scrub belonging to her tenant’s sons. It is not the hardness of Christian realism that ...”

“... dismissal of Ted Kennedy’s future, like so many perfectly reasonable historical prophecies, may be premature. Kennedy electrified the Democratic Party’s otherwise sallow mini-convention this summer; scarcely a week later, he left the National Association of Colored People’s annual meeting on its feet, cheering. Wills quotes one of John Kennedy’s ...”

“... VIP in the propaganda team: ‘Do you mean I am free now?’‘Why, yes,’ she was smiling.‘May I go home right now?’‘Yes, do.’ She was a bit surprised.I started running towards the gate when I heard the woman calling behind me: ‘Comrade! Comrade! Your things!’I only waved in answer for I was choked with tears. ‘Comrade’ is the most common ...”

“... good grades. The fact that a number of his superiors were ready to believe that he was a traitor may very well denote anti-semitism, but also important was the fact that he was from Alsace (as were a great many of the officers involved in the Affair). His family fortune was based in Mulhouse, which had been annexed to Germany. It was there that his brother ...”

“... desire himself, he also takes advantage with hindsight of his own youthful opportunities. It may be true, as he says, that the autobiographic imagination necessarily fills in memory’s gaps, that ‘in writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts’: but frank reference to ‘the lies I’ve made up to get from one poor truth to another’ cannot ...”

“... life: the authors do not explore how far religious organisations’ earlier adoption of youth work may have helped forward the secularising process. One further unfamiliar feature is the adult’s unashamed leadership role within the Brigade. Twentieth-century technological, psychological and educational trends have ensured increasing deference to youth and ...”

“... against classical political economy. Jevons conceded in the 1870s that historical investigation ‘may very properly do for political economy what Sir Henry Maine has done for jurisprudence’. Alfred Marshall, always sensitive to a shift in the wind, was not slow to distance himself, and the academic discipline which he kept under his wing, from the alien ...”

“... is not in The Shameful Life, which tends to play down whatever conventional sex life Dalí may have had). Otherwise, ‘a little voyeurism, accompanied by masturbation, is quite enough.’ It sounds like an understandable preference for a light lunch. In 1922 Dalí obtained a place to study art at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, but he ...”

“... too – by exploiting the advantage of its being in the ivy league without the ivy. The LSE may not fulfil the intentions of its initial Fabian benefactor, but there is still a real sense in which it is the institution Sidney Webb created. His thinking obviously was that socialism on the Fabian model held the future in its bones. As disinterested ...”

“... to line up exactly. A philosopher of this second kind – call him a ‘linguistic idealist’ – may either regard the ontologies of different discourses as incommensurable (the line of thinking of a Kuhn or a Saussure or a Derrida) or, like Quine, regard the attribution of an ontology to a discourse as a useful but sloppy bit of projection. An excellent new ...”

“... keeps me from better things’) when he killed the sleuth at the Reichenbach Falls on 4 May 1891. But reader demand obliged him to resurrect Holmes in 1893, and again in 1903 and 1921. It wasn’t that the author wanted to do it, just that the dollars offered by his American publisher were more than he could refuse. Rider Haggard killed his most ...”