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… whole thing amounted to no more than eight seconds of discomfort in our otherwise exceptionally comfortable lives. … yet started and maybe she wasn’t checking her e-mail. Also in fairness, the e-mail didn’t exactly demand a reply, … is some kind of exercise in patrolling for authenticity. Zadie Smith, who’s written from a variety of ethnic and gender …

… bent of the South. These two sides were very literally embodied in Germaine de Stael’s romantic novel of the early 19th … of all countries in Europe, excited in him.) II In 1826, a few years before Emily Dickinson’s birth, her father … in “Our lives are Swiss” of those three exclamation points which splotch the verse, the designation of “Siren …

… or the plural, referred virtually unequivocally to ladies’ underwear. Now that television has come with almost repulsive frankness to deal with … of a cat’s being substituted by an unscrupulous vendor. (Also, small boys always treasured the left hind foot of a …

… though I can’t remember exactly why. There was traffic coming out of Aleppo, or perhaps we got lost in Damascus, or … man in a baseball cap selling pistachios, or toy soldiers, or AA batteries—and the sound of Arab pop music … East Jerusalem to the West Bank. Were it not for the checkpoints, Ramallah would be less than thirty minutes from …

… with the mere recognisable presentation of a fact? It is becoming tedious. And it has prevented the novel from … novel which, in England, Thackeray really popularised and Galsworthy perfected; but its limitations are painfully … Without these wonderful fortifications, or these erudite studies on Noses, much fun would, it is true, be lost —or …