Underworld Turns

Two voices

The British writer Diana Evans is best known for her novels, including Ordinary People (TLS, June 29, 2018) – which explores what happens to romantic love when it meets domestic drudgery – and A House for Alice (TLS, April 7, 2023), which revisits Ordinary People’s characters a decade later. But, as we learn from her […]

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Texas Democrat Forced to Sleep in Capitol After Refusing 24-Hour Police Escort

After weeks spent out-of-state in an effort to deny Texas Republicans a quorum for an extreme redistricting plan—designed at Donald Trump’s behest to give the GOP a five-seat advantage in the House of Representatives—the state’s Democrats are still refusing to back down. After the Democrats’ departure, Gov. Greg Abbott went as far as signing arrest […]
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