Lustiger learns to disrespect the government's futile gestures, which mostly exacerbate a burning sense among those immigrants and children of immigrants of being belittled, disrespected, and neglected. Instead she comes to a sense of collective responsibility, a focus on 'us' rather than 'them.'

Morpurgo's latest book addresses matters of energy and momentum, Copernican versus Ptolemaic understandings, the bases of human community, and our disturbing, often avaricious and rapacious relations to the physical world.

This intricately assembled collection on Woolf and her many selves urges readers to question, to go further, to renew their struggles to deal with the “intangible urgency of the present.”

Greenfield's notions of the actions of subjective experience are based on something external to itself: “While the mind makes sense of the world about you, identity enables the world to make sense of you.”

Lavinia Greenlaw’s far-ranging introduction 'Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland', reads sometimes like the flight of a bumblebee. Fascinatingly brilliant in each place that it lands, it succeeds in making the reader long to know more of William Morris.