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“... In​ ‘Dream Song 364’, quite close to the end of the sequence, John Berryman’s avatar/protagonist Henry is once more being remorselessly flattered. He has surely read everything there is to read. (One thinks of Mallarmé’s opening line from ‘Brise Marine’, ‘La chair est triste, hélas! et j’ai lu tous les livres.’) Not so, Henry says ...”

“... danseuse ou le danseur’, ‘celui ou celle’) to the ambiguity it has already dismissed, and Charlotte Mandell’s translation follows suit (‘the man or woman’, ‘he or she’). A taste for sexual ambiguity is hardly attested to in Michelangelo’s character – if his female figures have a paradoxical element it’s manliness rather than ...”

“... Jean Cocteau​ had a genius for being seen. As an elegant young man, with the cult poet Anna de Noailles on his arm, thanks to an introduction from Proust, he danced the polka at the Bastille Day ball in 1912, careful, first, to alert the photographers. ‘If I were to take a picture of a village wedding,’ a photographer once remarked, ‘Jean Cocteau would appear between the bride and groom ...”

“... conquer, or we die.’13 FebruaryThese articles first appeared in Le Monde and were translated by ...”

“... On the night of 4 February 1983, Klaus Barbie was sitting on the cold metal floor of a transport aircraft. Kidnapped in Bolivia, the former head of the Gestapo in Lyon was being flown back to French territory, to be charged with crimes against humanity. As the hours passed, Barbie answered some of the questions put to him by a journalist. Much of his talk was a sulky protest about the illegality of his seizure ...”

“... our washing machines, our toasters, our television sets, our fridges: this is it. Translated by ...”

“... do you have?’‘I don’t have any.’‘Then you have nothing.’This piece was translated by ...”

“... that carried him gently, still laughing, to the ground. This piece was translated from French by ...”