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“... Is sin​ an inescapable condition? Ruth, the narrator of Kate Riley’s first novel, has given this question much thought. When she asks forgiveness, she does so in the knowledge that she will ‘sin again immediately’. If she controls her sins of commission (lies, covetousness), she knows she will be undone by her innumerable sins of omission (withheld laughter, boredom ...”

“... relative to other categories which themselves change.’ Thus the British poet-philosopher Denise Riley in Am I That Name? (1988), her short, playful, brilliant study of the many ways in which fixed identities never work. ‘That “women” is indeterminate and impossible … is what makes feminism,’ Riley concluded, so ...”

“... close to obeying a more recent transsexual injunction, or piece of transsexual worldly advice. As Kate Bornstein, one of today’s best-known and most controversial male-to-female transsexuals, puts it towards the end of her account of her complex (to say the least) journey as a transsexual: ‘Never fuck anyone you wouldn’t wanna be.’ (Bornstein’s ...”

“... BBC 2’s Works programme followed the activity of two American photographers in Phnom Penh, Chris Riley and Doug Niven, who are still labouring to complete the record, unearthing dusty negatives and yellowing log-books, and interviewing ex-prison guards. Hell-holes are as distinctive as the revolutions they serve. Although Hitler and Stalin dealt in much ...”

“... demand. And the early Underground had a good safety record. The first person to die under a train, Kate Gollop, who fell by accident when rushing to catch the last service from what is now Great Portland Street Station to Edgware Road, was killed one and a half years into the Metropolitan’s operation. She was said to have been drunk. Such episodes were ...”