The journalist Anand Giridharadas examines the power and influence that Jeffrey Epstein brokered, and which the latest batch of Epstein files puts on display.

The search continues in the documents for ironclad criminal conduct, but the story of a sexual predator given a free ride by the ruling class has already emerged.

Victorians go postal -- Postal digressions : mail and sexual scandal -- "This little queen's head can't be untrue" : Trollope's postal infidelities -- A queer job for a girl : the communicative touch ...