Perhaps the most telling revelation it provides about the past of Middle Eastern cultures is the mix of influences that prevailed in the area where southeast Turkey, northwest Iraq and northeast Syria converge.
The point, of course, is that some of those small, devastating details (complaints about duvets, the daft toy lion, Jamie Carragher's telling revelation that when he was away with England only two or three of the squad would bother to watch other matches on TV) are symptomatic of wider failings.
Perhaps the most telling revelation from the recent reporting — aside from the U.K.'s Channel 4 catching Alexander Nix on camera explaining how his company could supply beautiful Ukrainian women to entrap politicians — is that Cambridge Analytica is essentially a shell company created by the British firm Strategic Communications Laboratories.
The event -- which provides a telling revelation for how quickly the post-election climate soured -- serves as the prologue of Robert Draper's much-discussed and heavily-reported new book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives".
But essentially Eisenberg has developed two characters without finding a story for them to tell, revelations or not revelations.
King Carl-Gustaf of Sweden, embarrassed by a recent stream of philandering allegations and kiss-and-tell revelations, is a relatively sprightly 66.
Following some ancient kiss-and-tell revelations in a newspaper Bert Millichip, the chairman of the Football Association, as good as told Robson his contract would not be renewed after the tournament.
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill Granta £12.99, pp192 In an age in which kiss-and-tell revelations about sex have become commonplace, it is a more intimate act to write about death.
The texts aren't romantic, directed at the reader as if she were the girl in the story, perhaps because directing them to a third, platonic party creates a space for new story-telling revelations.
