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“... representing a woman (Charity, or Caritas) with two children. While his right hand works with a hammer to fasten the metal to its base, the artist lovingly embraces the women with a huge left hand. His fingers press up against her thigh. Lest we doubt that this is meant as a gesture of embrace, note the way the goldsmith’s cheek is bent to meet hers. I ...”

“... it gives me the fidgets.’ But his intellectual curiosity was nothing like as studied as that of Paul Nash, a somewhat patronising friend, who construed metaphysicality if not surreality wherever he chanced to look. Nash came to live near Rye in 1925 and, Burra gleefully reported, was subjected by his wife to the local music scene: ‘He said my dear must ...”

“... employed a bevy of refugee leftist intellectuals like Marcuse, Franz Neumann, Otto Kirkheimer and Paul Baran. Recent books include poignant accounts like Gabrielle Edgcomb’s From Swastika to Jim Crow, about the sixty-odd German Jewish professors who found refuge at black colleges in the American South. According to Claus-Dieter Krohn, a quarter of the ...”

“... by the hard men of the Modern Movement. Then, after Betjeman resigned, along came Pevsner, to hammer home the determinist message with which the magazine was obsessed. Or that is how Mowl tells it. Yet when one reads those seventy-year-old issues of the Review today, the impression one gets is of a balanced and catholic editorial policy, healthily excited ...”

“... An ow tha’s got to leather em To stop em gi’in t’nod. An some o t’same in Bible Where Paul screams fit to bust Ow men are fallen creatures But womenfolk are t’wust. Now I reckon this fired Peter, An men-talk were is goad, An culprit were our belderin God An is ancient, bullyin road. No, Pete weren’t drove by vengeance, Rountwistedness or ...”

“... which enlisted the song unattractive,’ Steiner begins stonily, yet ‘the opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando … tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me after into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.’‘The phrasing is a tad ...”

“... and hardships into which he was leading them.’ In his contribution to Shafted, the journalist Paul Routledge – the author of a biography of Scargill – concludes dolefully that the ‘war is over. Nothing is gained by remaining in the trenches of 1984, powerful though those experiences and memories are.’ The best Granville Williams can do to soften ...”

“... from the outside: Walter and Patty, the pioneering gentrifiers of a once down-at-heel street in St Paul, Minnesota, are popular, liberal, but not quite knowable. Their teenage daughter, Jessica, is straightforward; their handsome teenage son, Joey, excessively doted on by his mother, is perversely attracted to the Monaghans, the working-class Republicans next ...”

“... his bright skittering sustained by surface tension, Carey banging in critical nails with a demotic hammer. The first thing to say about the latter’s Original Copy is that reading it gives a different impression from scanning the individual pieces on Sunday mornings. You get a much more formidable impression of the man’s style. His prose, and also – to ...”

“... having an idea of how he looked. In the early Christian centuries the need didn’t exist. St Paul wasn’t interested, and the Judaic tradition was opposed to images anyway. The conversion of Jesus from an itinerant Jewish charismatic to the Logos, the second person of the Trinity, was made later by philosopher-theologians in the Greek tradition to whom ...”

“... meticulously referenced genealogical tables of biblical characters culminating in Jesus Christ and Paul of Tarsus, to convince the good folk of Jacobean England that the Twelve Tribes of Israel and the notables of the Old Testament were gentry families rather like those who ruled the shires of England in 1611 – or better still, that the whole people of ...”

“... evidence as to his age and appearance was contradictory. More than 130 suspects are listed in Paul Begg, Martin Fido and Keith Skinner’s authoritative The Jack the Ripper A to Z (1991). Curtis claims that Ripperologists have ‘brought us no closer to the real culprit than did the exertions of Scotland Yard in 1888’, but he is unduly dismissive of ...”

“... the intellectual. But he is also one of the few working American novelists – along with Paul Beatty, Lydia Millet, Mark Leyner, Mark Doten – truly committed to satire. The opening passage of The Ask compares America to a ‘run-down and demented pimp’ slumped in the corner of a pool hall, a novel image of imperial decline. Sometimes it’s the ...”

“... that inherent in the replication of the state’s dominant ideology’. Cosgrove does not hammer away at state and landed interests so insistently, but for him, as for Harley, the ‘disinterested and rationally objective’ Apollonian vision of the Earth from above is as closely connected to ‘lust for material possessions, power and authority’ as ...”

“... political convention boilerplate, the usual feelgood-God-bless-America-we’re-the-greatest, with hammer and anvil parallelisms, antitheses, and the occasional chiasmus for spice. Obama gives it a multicultural twist, reprising the now famous story of his mixed-race background, modest upbringing and unlikely rise to the top of the ladder and the American ...”