Monisha Rajesh
(Picture: Monisha Rajesh / Twitter)Welcome back to the Londoner’s Diary. An open letter has been signed by nearly 1,000 authors, poets, and publishers criticising the publishing world’s silence on the harassment of three writers. Later today we hear about reports of a leak at the British Museum as seven of the Greek galleries remain closed. Author Leïla Slimani says as a teen she wanted to be a writer because of the hedonistic lifestyle which involved “drugs and alcohol and... syphilis,” though reality hasn’t quite matched up. In SW1A Stanley Johnson defends himself after being criticised for an appearance on Newsnight.
