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“... piece, ‘Luvina’, appears in a pointed collection of Latin American short stories gathered by Thomas Colchie which brings to light some of the less familiar aspects of the region’s writers. Brazilians are refreshingly well-represented; refreshingly, magic realism is not. Linking many of the pieces is a dark, brooding quality where cruelty and ...”

“... As a biology teacher at a large comprehensive school, my sister was given the job of taking the second-formers for sex education. To unblock inhibitions in the first lesson, she decided on a mild form of aversion therapy: covering the blackboard with taboo words, words normally out of bounds in the discourse between a teacher and her twelve-year-old pupils ...”