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“... most pervasive form of American mass culture’, playing to audiences on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. For some cultural historians, America is founded on the original sin of genocide; for Rogin, the sin is slavery. Blackface is a product of European imperialism and worse – a shocking form of dehumanisation, a vampire rite in which one people enacts ...”

“... for whom ‘the threat of levelling tendencies’ and ‘the encroachment of Lucky Jim Dixon’ had yet to loom, is as crude a caricature as anything in the press coverage of the Lucan affair.From this historical distance it is not only broad trends that are easier to see: details are also emerging in the memoirs of people, especially women, who ...”

“... policeman say, ‘Move along there,’ the kind of colloquialism you’d hear on the street or in Dixon of Dock Green; the Latin teacher crossed it out and suggested ‘Vacate the thoroughfare’ instead. Harrison had his revenge on him – and on everyone else for whom the word ‘Classics’ was and is synonymous with ‘posh’ – when he translated ...”

“... and rewritten some of the source material – narrates the story of her life, from her birth in Dixon City, Iowa in 1962 up to the present day. The narrative is gappy and by confronting us with a string of discrete vignettes, Scanlan gathers momentum only to break it. ‘I wanted the book to have a kind of concussive force or physical impact similar to the ...”

“... get the job done.The example offered is Black Hawk Down (2001), a blockbuster based on a book by Mark Bowden about the near disastrous military operation that culminated in the hasty retreat of US forces from the centre of Mogadishu. Thomson tells us that he has felt compelled to watch the movie over and over again – a guilty pleasure – thanks to the ...”

“... cabaret. Nixon had his aides investigate a look-alike satirist who went by the name of Richard M. Dixon. Country Joe McDonald sang in 1971 of a new mechanical man, Looked just like a human being . . . Good God it was makin’ me sick . . . It was no one but Tricky Dick. In death Nixon retained notoriety and name recognition. Greenberg includes the ...”

“... last page.’ ‘I know!’ ‘If that doesn’t stir me, I just shut it up with a bang, and mark it N.G. But give me a last page – and I’m infallible. Infallible.’ ‘You would be infallible even if you never opened …’ ‘No, no. Balzac – Balzac! Not me! I take off my hat to Balzac! I must open it!’ Satire can’t buy you friends but ...”

“... were former colonial servants and one of them, a redoubtable character called Ingrams who left his mark on German local government, was apt to treat the Germans as if they were a specially intelligent tribe of Bedouin. In the early days these British officers operated on what today seem grotesque assumptions: for instance, that Germany would be occupied for ...”

“... bloody and fruitless’, he said. The first two predictions, at least, were on the mark. British support for the South stemmed from complex sources: nationalistic rivalry, relief that the brash upstart was receiving his comeuppance, admiration for ‘Southern honour’ and other Confederate pretensions to aristocratic values. Many English ...”

“... and ordered ships. SS Montrose had been built by a Middles-brough company called Sir Raylton Dixon and Co, and was launched in 1897. It was a steel vessel weighing 5431 tons; it was 444 feet in length and 52 feet wide. It was neither a big ship nor was it especially fast. It made about 12 knots. The steamer’s first owner was Elder, Dempster and Co, who ...”

“... and Moctezuma’s as a matter of cavalry boots stamping on sandals, though it’s not far off the mark. He delays until late in the book an incident on the Spanish side symmetrical in horror with Moctezuma’s offhand execution order of the little cousin. Cortés polishes his boots, neglected because the expedition’s stock of oil must be reserved for ...”

“... far as I can tell, from ‘Black to the Future’, an essay published in 1994 by a white critic, Mark Dery. ‘Why do so few African Americans write science fiction?’ is the question it asks, though the bulk of the essay consists of interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate, Tricia Rose. The word is now much used when talking about the interest so many ...”

“... terror rather than a caustic commentary on the pervasiveness of racism on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.More​ was suppressed too. Wright’s publishers rejected the novel he at the time considered his most important, written between Native Son and Black Boy. An abridged version of The Man Who Lived Underground appeared in the posthumous collection ...”