“ If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. Sarah Churchwell
“ The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by maki… Sarah Churchwell
“ Before about 1900, there is little discernible trace in American cultural conversations of the phrase ‘American dream’ being used to describe a collective, generalisable national ideal of any kind, le… Sarah Churchwell
“ The artist, wrote Joseph Conrad, speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives. That was the art that Scott Fitzgerald would find, reminding us that a mi… Sarah Churchwell
