Hints and tips:
...No, I thought not”) but like Marnie, Michael has been disappointed, and his creator revels in his ordinariness, lovingly rendering his scruffy beard, his jumper, his passion for . . . geography....
...Not for one moment did I believe that Helen and Hew would remain married, or even that Hew would be persuaded to go to the institute — but to serve the story he must....
...What kind of novel is this, I found myself thinking as I turned its pages — surely one of the best questions a book can provoke....
...I reckon not. We can only be glad, surely, when our knowledge of an artist’s work expands, and further complexity — in these all-too-binary times — is added into the mix....
...If it had begun “I still see him there....
...I had seen it.”...
...Sometimes I took the tram home with a student called Agnieszka....
...When I get upset, he reminds me that I have great-great-grandparents buried in the churchyard. Old English bones going soft under cold dark earth.”...
...The darkness around became “a downy protective skin, a soft pelt in which I could lose myself . . . It gave me space and secrecy, silence and anonymity.”...
...I have always loved the British Museum....
...I won’t say more than that, but if you’re a person who doesn’t like to read the acknowledgments section . . . please make an exception. There’s hope here, too....
...words down to the two we know today: M’illumino d’immenso (Literal translation: I illuminate myself with immensity.)...
...I have stood in museums all over the world, attempting to consider how I might comprehend an object whose power I could never truly understand....
...“It was in a hidden corner of the Oxford University Press basement, where the Dictionary’s archive is stored, that I opened a dusty box and came across a small black book tied with a ribbon.”...
...I deeply regret that this misconduct happened in our firm. Our clients and stakeholders deserve our apology.”...
...Reading this adventurous novel, I recalled Bernardine Evaristo’s rollicking The Emperor’s Babe, set in a second-century Londinium that’s breathlessly present; or Wells Tower’s evergreen story “Everything...
...I wanted to celebrate the incredible work they do.”...
...As a teenager in a girls’ choir I rarely had the opportunity to sing works by female composers, but there was one exception....
...What am I doing when I contain the domestic space I inhabit in a plastic tub? I am offering myself comfort. My father was born in 1924; my mother in 1933, the year after Plath....
...Erica Dorn has four Anderson films under her belt as lead graphic designer....
...Eric Platt I think it’s perfect. I think when I look at Erica, I think the arc she’s going on is, she’s this neurotic people-pleaser, right?...
...Slang, says Erica Dhawan, author of Digital Body Language, “can create intimacy with colleagues when body language is no longer the primary communication”. Workplace norms evolve....
...“I loved them so much, I wore them until both sides opened up,” Masarin says....
...The pandemic-prompted move gave him time to reflect and now, he says, “I am back doing what I want to do, work with artists.”...
...A great hero of this book is Gopnik’s driving instructor, Arturo Leon; as soon as you meet him you too will wish to become the noodle, I’ll say no more than that....
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