Since then, however, little has been said or written about George Moscone that most people, even in the Bay Area, would know much about; few would remember much about him beyond his having been murdered and having had a San Francisco convention center named for him, while Harvey Milk has ...
Some of thebig book prizesdelivered more satisfying winners this year than usual. I loved Samantha Harvey’sOrbital, which wonthe Booker Prize, and V. V. Ganeshananthan’sBrotherless Night,which clinched boththe Women’s Prizeandthe Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. On the other hand, I was...
Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, all those Catholic priests and Muslim grooming gangs, children’s homes where sexual abuse was widespread. You’ll see headlines that talk of an older man ‘having sex’ with a fifteen year old girl, and hopefully say to yourself no, that’s...