Let’s hope American industries ignore this and keep standards that protect the environment, like the rest of the world and common sense dictates.

Also endangered is the Hawaiian monk seal. This one hauled out onto a popular beach in Maui two months ago.

Prophet Song is so creepy - and current. It won the Booker Prize in 2023.

Another excellent spin-off is the 1992 novel “Was” by Geoff Ryman. It’s about Dorothy Gale in 19th century Kansas, the young Judy Garland, and an Oz-obsessed man dying of AIDS in the 1990s.

I live in San Francisco, and plenty of people talk to strangers here. Please don’t give us a new bad reputation.