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“... be correct) is the close resemblance between Finnis’s analysis of property right and that which James Tully presents as being Locke’s. This is of some importance, since Nozick models his account of property right so closely on what he incorrectly supposes to be that of Locke. Tully’s book is far less ambitious in ...”

“... said by Malcolm in his treatment of Spinoza). The last substantive chapter is that on Locke, by James Tully; being necessarily devoted largely to the Treatises on Government, secretly composed and anonymously published in the rapidly changing English political scene, it passes from examining them in that context to exploring the general theory of ...”

“... When Sarah Orne Jewett sent her friend Henry James a copy of her latest work, a historical novel entitled The Tory Lover, he told her it would take a very long letter to ‘disembroil the tangle’ of how much he appreciated the gift of this ‘ingenious exercise’ of hers, and how little he was in sympathy with historical novels ...”

“... figures who recreated modern writing were gay, or Irish, or Jewish: Melville, Whitman, Hopkins, James, Yeats, Kafka, Woolf, Joyce, Stein, Beckett, Mann, Proust, Gide, Firbank, Lorca, Cocteau, Auden, Forster, Cavafy. But he would have been slightly unsettled, I think, by the thought of the gay element in this list, and by the idea that in place of ...”

“... And Messiaen had found in Loriod a fearless interpreter who shared his Catholic convictions. As James Fletcher wrote in the LRB in 1996, ‘Loriod’s technical ability was such that Messiaen found it quite impossible to think up anything she couldn’t play – and it wasn’t for want of trying.’ He wrote nearly all his pieces with her in mind. They ...”