“... case, the victors appealed to voters far beyond the right’s traditional social base.This in turn may only be one symptom of deeper social transformations that have taken place in Latin America, wrought by neoliberalism and only partially delayed or diverted by the Pink Tide. Increasingly precarious employment, a long onslaught against organised labour, the ...”

“... powerful and destitute: all his sympathies are with the ‘owl’ in the dock, whatever his crime may have been. Rather he is pointing the finger at the modern state, which forbids violence to its citizens, not because, as Freud puts it, ‘it desires to abolish it, but because it desires to monopolise it, like salt and tobacco’. For Tarrou, the ...”

“... their minds. In the post-truth world, being right isn’t as important as being believed. It may be that in twenty years’ time, the impartiality requirement that comes with the licence fee will look anachronistic because it will have become imperative to answer the tribal television news networks such as Fox News with rival tribal television ...”

“... right-wing fanatic in February 1919 and the Bavarian revolution began to disintegrate. It ended in May, when counter-revolutionary troops under Noske’s orders stormed Munich with artillery and bombing aircraft. A ‘White Terror’ followed, worse than anything seen in Berlin.In the same month, the Versailles peace terms were published. Hopeful fantasies ...”

“... run by Richard Avedon and Marvin Israel. One of Avedon’s biographers suggests that this may have been a ‘mating ritual’, since Hujar was Avedon’s type. But then Avedon’s work of the 1940s and 1950s was one of Hujar’s most important influences. Either way, he got in.As part of the masterclass, the students were introduced to a number of ...”

“... he kept them to himself. His first public statement in Tunis, made at a press conference in May 1957, was a response to a massacre of some three hundred civilians that the FLN had carried out in a hamlet outside Melouza in southern Kabylia, a stronghold of the rival Algerian National Movement, led by Messali Hadj. Fanon denounced the ‘foul ...”

“... a year and reckons some beggars must make around £200 a week.Intolerance of this kind may be striking, but it is not new. Unlike, say, dramatists, beggars have never had a break from being one of the sub-groups of the great British underclass. With ...”

“... he informed the book’s publishers in a late-life flash of his earlier manner, ‘you may say that this is the greatest novel ever written – which indeed it is.’ By then, though, the drink had taken its toll, and he died in 1930. His last decline began with a nasty fall, which took place while he was being ejected from the Trocadero restaurant ...”

“... and had begun as an undergraduate essay, written for his Cambridge supervisor, I.A. Richards.Cats may look at kings. It was certainly possible to learn from Empson (‘Kill Your Speed,’ as the traffic signs say). But it would be fatal to make any attempt to mimic his precocious scholarship, his eccentric brilliance, or his quirky and ...”

“... the importance of morality regularly betray his friends and his cause for so many years? Money may have changed hands, but this is not, in Silone’s case, sufficient explanation. All his biographers agree that, in so far as an answer is to be had, it must lie in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck central Italy in 1915. The third child of small ...”

“... are today elegant, pleasant, quiet places to live; Robin Hood Gardens, however controversial it may still be, is indisputably preferable to the serried yuppiedromes being prepared for the site; and buildings by both from the 1970s have been listed. Their strange, disguised self-flagellation appears wholly unjustified. Their guide, though it seldom revises ...”

“... on no etymological grounds – with a wholly distinct cultural milieu, Rastafarians, which may have given it a further racist tinge. My father and his friends adopted the term, and the rastaquouères my father knew – and who always provoked him to chuckle with delight at their delinquencies – were English-born; unlike himself, however, they were ...”

“... the same things, but on an incomparably bigger scale. ‘The impact of the internet on autistics may one day be compared in magnitude to the spread of sign language among the deaf,’ the journalist Harvey Blume wrote in 1997. It was a bold prediction, but perhaps not bold enough. Digital technologies have indeed given autistic people the chance to ...”

“... of the world”’. One reason Fitzgerald continues to fascinate generations of US teenagers may indeed be the way his most popular book upholds the American dream, its ‘colossal vitality’, even as it exposes it. But even old friends like Wilson never quite appreciated the depth of Fitzgerald’s disillusionment, the nihilism behind the ...”

“... as the conditionings we undergo from our myths of identity’. The phrasing there (as elsewhere) may borrow from religion but the meaning is entirely psychological and personal and turns on Heaney’s growing conviction that communal consciousness is a kind of false consciousness: ‘The real problem in Northern Ireland’, he told Miller, ‘is that the ...”