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“... plan – the episode was a disaster from start to finish, as two new books by the journalists Kevin Cook and Jeff Guinn make clear. Among the most damning details is that the ATF didn’t need to carry out the February raid in the first place. Koresh had a cordial relationship with the county sheriff, Jack Harwell, who would drive out to Mount Carmel ...”

“... next time we see him it’s ten or more years later. The last act shows Chiron’s reunion with Kevin, the friend who was forced to beat him up, or didn’t have the courage not to. Kevin too is played by three different actors: Jaden Piner, Jharrel Jerome and André Holland. Kevin is ...”

“... cuisine’ who, in a TV interview for Cooking Today, claims that his secret is to cook ‘the skins and the skins only: the skins of all objects, animals, things and ideas are apt to be cooked’. Then there is Josecho, who is shown cruising the streets of Madrid on his Vespa, a camera taped to his helmet, filming a multitude of posters ...”

“... Olive watches her neighbours closely, and has taught maths to a number of them. She knows why Kevin Coulson, whose mother killed herself, has parked beside the marina and is sitting watching the sea: he’s thinking about blowing his brains out. When she sees Cindy Coombs agonising over which brand of butter to buy in the supermarket she knows that ...”

“... cross-sections of ‘built environment’ installations. Here was the ideal story with which to cook up levels of expectation, and dread, before I climbed into the suspended cage. Hughes has anticipated my excursion and the moral implications of all our compulsive burrowing. He understands ‘public outreach’ by major engineering projects as a method of ...”

“... man in the corner at the back. This meant I ended up talking to Leys in front of Kevin Hull, the producer of Channel Four’s Benefits Street, who is making a film about Thanet. Leys told me he’d experienced no hostility at school, though on the street he’d been called a racist, a homophobe, a bigot and a sexist. His career in politics ...”

“... working on Ulysses. Early in the book he has Stephen Dedalus recount a visit to the old Fenian Kevin Egan in Paris, watching him roll what he called ‘gunpowder cigarettes through fingers smeared with printer’s ink’. He refers to the explosion at Clerkenwell caused by the Fenians in 1867: ‘Shattered glass and toppling masonry’. And then Egan ...”