I have never been a fan of tennis, I'll be honest, but even I can appreciate a great tennis player when I see one, and one of the finest of all was the American champion, Andre Agassi. Agassi was at one time number one in the world. He won eight grand slam titles (including a Wimbledon title) and a gold medal in the Olympic Games.

What I was pissed off about, though, was him telling everyone that he'd only grassed on me because I'd grassed on him first, which was a total lie.

Henry Irving and other Victorian actors easily created empathy for Shylock, even in a muscularly Christian period.

The body of the working-class man of the 1930s — and to an extent its text — is hungry, an empty space once filled by its labor.