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“... For thirteen years​ Britney Spears lived under a conservatorship, a legal arrangement in which every aspect of her life was controlled by her father. She couldn’t spend her own money, drive her own car, write a cheque, change her setlist, get a manicure, take vitamins for her hair, remove her IUD or drink coffee ...”

“... years ago, the Federal Government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.’ Amiable? Britney Spears – will her oldest fan, Alistair Campbell, help her run for President in 2004? – has co-written with her mother a not-in-the-slightest-bit-autobiographical novel about a teenager who becomes a pop star. Some say, however, that A Mother’s ...”

“... and Vox Lux (2018), stories of a politician who resembles Hitler and a singer who resembles both Britney Spears and Lady Gaga. The rest of the images described above are from The Brutalist, Corbet’s most recent film. The hero is an architect trained at the Bauhaus, and a couple of chairs by Mies van der Rohe have strong cameo roles in the ...”

“... a used tampon at a paparazzo. She seems to have come straight from the 1990s, a Lindsay Lohan or a Britney Spears whose public cris de coeur became tabloid scandals. She’s less naive than Patrick, no stranger to the false promises of Hollywood, but like him desperation has led her ambition astray. She isn’t ready to give up on the film, even though ...”

“... bestselling memoir. McCain’s first line of attack was to accuse Obama of being a celebrity like Britney Spears or Paris Hilton; the Republicans created their own media star in Sarah Palin. Throughout the campaign, supplementary narratives, footnotes and rumours were regularly posted on YouTube. The comedy show Saturday Night Live unexpectedly asserted ...”

“... verge of interesting but never actually interesting internet stunts’) with stickers that said: BRITNEY SPEARS. By far his biggest publicity coup was offering six shares, for $2000 each, in the future royalties of what has become Richard Yates: he sold all six and was interviewed on the BBC. He did all this while other writers, facing a newly thrifty ...”

“... fashion-forward, scatologically sleazy or inanely poppy (in the form of drunken lip-syncs to Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera songs, where the aim wasn’t to deliver a perfect piece of synchronisation but to make the audience laugh).It was entertaining, and challenging, but I didn’t understand it. I couldn’t escape the comparison to ...”

“... of a sci-fi magazine, various shopping centres up and down the country, a game show, and an early Britney Spears album. Tarkovsky’s Zone is another place. But the words I have quoted are not the end of the book. We turn the page and read a quotation from the American novelist David Markson: ‘Or was it possibly nothing more than a fundamentally ...”

“... story of hunger and shame and can set off an inner alarm: you shouldn’t eat this, because Britney Spears ate just a grilled skinless chicken breast for lunch in 2001 (180 calories). If being thin is its own moral reward, then eating becomes a problem of moral management; the body a proof of character, a manifestation of that greatest of female ...”

“... allusions to anal fisting in his prefaces, a claim about as plausible as discovering references to Britney Spears in Boccaccio. Lodge’s eminently respectable James, by contrast, is sternly disapproving of ‘Uranians’, despite one or two discreet hints of repressed homosexuality. He is the kind of man who dresses for dinner even when he dines ...”

“... of a previous book by Heller-Roazen), foreigners and a host of others, including, most recently, Britney Spears. Most degraded of all were slaves, persons treated as things, chattel judged to be effectively deceased while still alive. Many convicts were also thrown into this category of ‘civil death’, which by the medieval period was also a ...”

“... William Harvey to the Earl of Southampton (whose name was Henry Wriothesley – sneaky, eh?) to Britney Spears. My own view – the alert reader will here detect my own mad gleam and rustling plastic bags – is that it probably doesn’t matter, since the dedication seems to be by T.T., i.e. Thomas Thorpe, the Sonnets’ publisher, and therefore is ...”

“... once struck by the simultaneous revelation, while watching the Super Bowl halftime show, that ‘Britney Spears’ can be rearranged into ‘Presbyterians’ and ‘Pepsi-Cola’ into ‘episcopal’. You get the feeling he’d be handy on a pub quiz team, except that he might argue stubbornly for facts he’d invented on the spot. He puts these skills ...”

“... and behind only McCartney in the hit-making stakes. Without Abba, Palm notes, there would be no Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys or Katy Perry (who got their break on songs written by Martin), and we’d all be poorer for that, I suppose.If the Beatles​ cast a shadow over pop songwriting from the 1970s to the 1990s, every decade since has belonged to ...”

“... Y … he was in Cairo chasing Angelina Jolie for the National Enquirer. He was in Berlin chasing Britney Spears for some other rag. He was reading Deleuze, DeLillo, Burroughs, Bukowski, Houellebecq. He used his tabloid money to go off to the Middle East, wandering around Iran in search of pharmaceuticals with a dodgy phrasebook: ‘Give me ...”