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The Lady in the Van

Alan Bennett, 26 October 1989

... saw more action than the Mini and she would tootle off in it on a Sunday morning, park on Primrose Hill (‘The air is better’) and even got as far as Hounslow. More often than not, though, she was happy (and I think she was happy then) just to sit in the Reliant and rev the engine. However, since she generally chose to do this first thing on Sunday ...

West End Vice

Alan Hollinghurst: Queer London, 8 May 2025

Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1945-59 
edited by Peter Parker.
Penguin, 445 pp., £30, May 2024, 978 0 241 37060 5
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Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1960-67 
edited by Peter Parker.
Penguin, 416 pp., £30, September 2024, 978 0 241 68370 5
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... versus the now spreading ‘gay’), and districts specified – ‘when I walk through Notting Hill Gate I feel I’m at a gigantic homosexual party.’Gaydar was yet to be defined but had always been employed: gays knew one another by their eyes (‘liquid’, ‘hunted’, ‘sharing’), by walk, voice, hairstyle, eyebrow inflection, the way they held a ...

Prejudice Rules

LRB Contributors: After Roe v. Wade, 21 July 2022

... Yale, go to law school, and become a judge. Ford, meanwhile, majored in psychology at UNC Chapel Hill. In her first year, she struggled both socially and academically. Was that because she hadn’t busted her butt? Was that why, unlike Kavanaugh, she hadn’t ended up on the US Court of Appeals for the DC circuit – why she hasn’t been asked to help ...

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