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“... For that matter, is it even a magazine?These questions are prompted by many of the artefacts in Steve Clay and M.C. Kinniburgh’s After Words. Published in parallel with an exhibition last year at New York’s Grolier Club, it’s a generously illustrated guide to a sprawling field, which over time has generated its own tangle of niche ...”

“... It was​ a bad time to be alive,’ Steve Brusatte tells us. A comet or asteroid about six miles across had just collided with the Earth, in the area we know as the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The speed of its arrival compressed the atmosphere ahead of it with such force that air temperatures became hotter than the surface of the sun; the energy released on impact was equivalent to a billion atomic bombs ...”

“... trying to make his vases seem ‘un-pot-like’, to lift them out of the earthy associations of clay and make them seem worthy of the prices he wanted to charge. In creating jasper Wedgwood oversaw one of the most important advances in ceramics since the invention of porcelain around a thousand years earlier. Yet he never made porcelain itself, the ...”

“... uprisings. Sometimes they followed through: the anarchist Alexander Berkman severely wounded Henry Clay Frick, Carnegie’s chairman and the man who, together with Carnegie, had presided over the bloodshed at Homestead; Leon Czolgosz shot and killed President William McKinley in 1901; and an anarchist’s bomb exploded at the San Francisco Preparedness Day ...”

“... societies, gradually created social bonds that enabled a different kind of material support. Steve Hindle has spent his career examining the social ties that sustained parish life. The Social Topography of a Rural Community is an impressive work of historical archaeology. Hindle describes the lives of 780 inhabitants of 176 households in the parish of ...”

“... Not quite the right category, since she is not human at all, she was moulded by her mother from clay fertilised by the gods, but Batman does find an old photo. It shows her with a bunch of weary-looking men, and must come from the early years of the 20th century. At the start of the new movie he sends it to her in Paris – she is working in the archives at ...”

“... him, and so are Dante’s, but in more far-reaching and more subtle ways. These are analysed by Steve Ellis with great sympathy and penetration, and his book is one of the most interesting for all lovers of poetry to have appeared for some time. In La Poesia de Dante Croce made a distinction between Dante the poet and Dante ‘filosofico e politico’, the ...”

“... points of sensitivity and even resistance in the bodies of his victims: the space where a plate of Steve McQueen’s Bear should have appeared remains blank, with the super-title, ‘Permission to reproduce denied’. This happens in Richard Billingham’s case as well, although his pictures of his family escape Stallabrass’s everlasting fire. Concurrently ...”

“... Johnson’s recordings for years. Even so, Anderson devotes more space to McCormick’s nemesis, Steve LaVere, who eventually produced Johnson’s million-selling, Grammy-award-winning Complete Recordings box set. He also helped himself not only to family photos but copyrights and royalties. ‘People talk about Brother Robert selling his soul,’ Anderson ...”

“... good hay. Tack wagons stock bandages, saddles, medication, leg paints, sweats, freezes, Bowie Clay, sheet cotton, vet wrap. You live at the track, your life is full … You lose touch with the outside. Things change. You don’t hear about world news unless something major happens, because you’re in your own world and you have enough news.Sonia is ...”

“... the uncivil engineering projects that carve so recklessly through the tarmac and concrete and clay of this loudly regenerated fiefdom. And down again through the pipes and wires of the utility companies who treat their cone-protected pits as privileged art installations and block off junctions and towpaths for unspecified months, as an oversubscribed ...”

“... for the undermining of complacency. Two PhD students at Stanford registered the domain google.com. Steve Jobs, returning to Apple, made Jony Ive his chief designer and set out on the path that ten years later would lead to the iPhone. The main wireless protocol – the system that later acquired the ‘Wi-Fi’ trademark – was launched. On the morning of ...”

“... stood near the site where Grenfell Tower would be built 125 years later. The soil was yellow clay, ideal for brick-making, the stuff from this quarter supplied the building industry then rapidly expanding Victorian London. One observer described Notting Dale, the area near the railway with the Hippodrome racecourse at its heart, as a place that seemed ...”