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The author of Flaneuse: Women Walk the City joins the bus commuter crowds in this love letter to ...

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Rural Iraq, during the war against the ''Islamic State''. A pregnancy out of wedlock seals a youn...

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In the late 1850s, Celina, a young girl aged fifteen, takes up work as a maid for the Victor Hugo...

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