Virginia This article is more than 2 months oldVirginia Democrats defend Susanna Gibson after sex-livestream revelationThis article is more than 2 months oldParty calls explicit Republican flyers ‘desperate’ attempt to foil Democratic challenger and distract voters from abortion ban
Democrats in Virginia are defending their candidate for a competitive statehouse seat against “desperate” efforts by Republicans to exploit her appearances on an adult porn website.
The state’s Republican party has admitted it sent out several thousand “explicit” flyers to voters in House district 57 containing still images reportedly of Democrat Susanna Gibson engaged in livestreamed sex acts with her husband. Read More...
BooksReviewAS Byatt is entertained yet baffled by Umberto Eco's latest novel, Baudolino, an uneasy mixture of history and fantasyBaudolino
by Umberto Eco
522pp, Secker & Warburg, £18
Italo Calvino described a "deep-rooted tradition in Italian literature... the notion of the literary work as a map of the world and the knowable, of writing driven on by a thirst for knowledge that may in turns be theological, speculative, magical, encyclopaedic..." He was talking about Dante the visionary and Galileo the cosmographer, but he himself, and Umberto Eco, also work from the same impulses. Read More...
RelationshipsReaders tell how their relationships have survived – or even been strengthened by – infidelity and deception
For 40-year-old Anne, the 10 years she has spent with her partner have been defined by betrayal. “A year into what I considered to be a near-perfect relationship, I found out Patrick had had an affair and that the woman was pregnant,” she says. “That child is now like my own and, although we initially split for a few months, Patrick and I have stayed together. Read More...
