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“... Margaret (whom she thought of as her honorary aunt) pressed on relentlessly with her campaign. Rebecca Swift, who has edited this correspondence, says that Shaw’s interest was caught – a ‘score’, as he pointed out himself, for Margaret – because of his ‘life-long fascination with unconventional family set-ups, orphans, changelings’. She ...”

“... Swift once said​ his favourite writer was La Rochefoucauld, ‘because I found my whole character in him.’ But what did he mean? Not, surely, that he personally resembled a Grand Siècle courtier who prided himself on – among other incongruous attributes – mild passions, virtuous sentiments and flawless social polish ...”

“... a void into which I often fall’. And so does the novel, ‘surfacing from character for a swift second before plunging back into the drama’. Stella is often ‘assailed’ by a ‘strange symbolical sense of my own activities’. In The Temporary (1995) and The Lucky Ones (2003), on the other hand, the presence of more than one tortured ...”

“... to that of the racecourse – and with similarly protracted foreplay before the few minutes of swift action. The Sport of Kings,* Rebecca Cassidy’s account of life as a ‘lad’ (the term is preferred by the many women who do the job) working for a Newmarket trainer and as a hand on a stud-farm is sometimes ...”

“... point (like Deane, she invokes Spenser). The series most clearly begins in a group of essays on Swift that showcase the variety of approaches that emerged in Irish Studies after the Good Friday Agreement. In Small World, Deane presents a Swift troubled by quantification, consumption and rationality, and by colonial ...”

“... birds and persons that have made him famous in camera history as a founding father of the movies. Rebecca Solnit’s striking introductory photograph shows what she wants us to see in Muybridge’s own pictures, and in him. Her subject is not just his life, but the unstable creative intensity of his relation to his world: the Wild West of the United ...”