“... while that the relationship might prove to be his own professional salvation, a fact that wasn’t unknown to the patient from the start, although he nevertheless believes there is something salutary and long-lasting between them. Finkel and Longo are entwined in each other’s desires and panics. ‘When it came to my Times debacle,’ Finkel writes, ‘I was ...”

“... and suffering of hundreds of thousands of Poles and a sense of outrage that their story is largely unknown, but also a measure of bad conscience – that is, their awareness that alongside the heroism went frequent callousness and indifference towards the Jews. This mixture produces a particular stridency among Polish survivors, many of whom Davies has ...”

“... alien. The best chapters in the book are ‘My Hustlers’ – ‘the excitement of ordering up an unknown guy on the phone’ – and ‘My Master’, which is about White’s thrilling sado-masochistic relationship with a young actor. He writes both poignantly and excitingly about sexual encounters, and these chapters are at once gripping and complicated in ...”

“... which is called ‘The Children’s Crusade’, Cat walks off, after a second attack, into an unknown future with a third boy from the family, a child ‘irreparably damaged’, deformed and abandoned as a baby. Without sentimentality – she knows he is a potential killer – she has decided to adopt him: ‘She and the boy were hurtling towards the day ...”

“... When I put out of mind our vanity, Treating shadows as if they were solid things.’ In 1917, an unknown American poet living in England brought out his first volume of poetry, a collection full of ironic echoes of the past and quotations from past masters, not one of which could be taken at its face value; indeed, it was difficult to know where the face or ...”

“... such thing, since not only is his motive non-thieving but he is unaware of his own actions, being, unknown to himself, drugged by opium. My hypothesis is that, by a refinement on Collins. Dickens used the present tense in Drood for chapters where something is seen to happen and can be vouched for in good faith by the narrative and yet is not what really ...”

“... the various methods used to free the hostages, the broadcasts put forth an impressive amount of unknown material, and there were moments when unconscious and deep-seated attitudes were suddenly illuminated. One such moment occurred when Christian Bourguet described his meeting in late March 1980 with Jimmy Carter at the White House. Bourguet, a French ...”

“... hammer yet another nail in the coffin housing the strange thesis that marital affection was unknown in England before the 18th century. Above all, the correspondence gives an extensive and splendidly clear view of what the facts of place-hunting, favour-hunting and royal patronage – those desires and ambitions by now widely recognised as the essential ...”

“... that, while American pupils learn about the battle at school, in this country it is almost unknown. Below us lay the bay in which the convoy of 41 ships had taken refuge. Viewed in the distance through the drizzle, the cliffs looked like one long headland, but the map showed two: first Filey Brigg and then, on the far side of Filey Bay, Flamborough ...”

“... hope to Europe’s Jews that the days of intense persecution, mass round-ups and deportation to unknown destinations in the East would soon end. A week before her fifteenth birthday, after hearing about the D-Day attacks, Anne Frank wrote in her diary that ‘hope is revived within us; it gives us fresh courage, and makes us strong again.’ But as spring ...”

“... was never captured or betrayed, despite the large bounty on his head. His burial place remains unknown, and in Welsh folk memory he enjoys a reputation comparable to King Arthur. Meanwhile the English Prince of Wales (soon to be Henry V, victor of Agincourt) displayed his own heroism in a fight with the rebel Harry Percy, better known as Hotspur. In a ...”

“... before Richard Greener’s sudden departure on a consular appointment to Vladivostok in 1898 is unknown. But by 1900, Genevieve had dropped the final ‘r’ of her surname and taken on a new middle name, Van Vliet (evoking the old Dutch names of New York’s white upper classes), while Belle and her brother, who had darker complexions than their ...”

“... a side hustle as a poet, moving in a literary world where he is neither a celebrity nor entirely unknown. Brief references to his activity as a writer, alongside a scattering of erudite quotations, imply that he has a more cultivated sensibility than most fictional detectives – but they hardly qualify him as a poetic soul. He never really wavers from his ...”

“... in the 19th century, he spent the rest of his working life. This sort of thing was not totally unknown. Both Mills had sojourned in the India Office. But it was not truly what Arnold wanted, although his mother wanted it, and after Kay-Shuttleworth’s departure from the education office he came under less obliging heads. Ralph Lingen, who remembered him ...”

“... would be if Max Ophuls had decided to make a film of it, as he did of Zweig’s ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’. Zweig’s text unites perfect narrative control with exceptional psychological subtlety. But it also shows an extreme attention to visual detail – never the set-piece description but the kind of ‘close-up’ at a moment of high drama which ...”