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Carrie Frye rereads Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” and goes looking for a Poiret dress from the bride’s trousseau.
Carrie Frye rereads Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” and goes looking for a Poiret dress from the bride’s trousseau.
A bill to amend Turkey’s Article 301, the law that criminalizes “insulting Turkishness,” may go to Parliament later this week.
This overview of candidates’ memoirs reminds me that I want to read Obama’s & Edwards’. See also.
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