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    Naughty, naughty — up to a point

    Dec 23, 2020 4 minutes
    Louise Perry

    ‘‘WOULDN’T IT BE wonderful,” thought one of the editors of this new anthology at the outset of her project, if a collection of highbrow stories on BDSM (bondage, domination, sadism and masochism) “could live together in one book, in the kind of book that could sit on artists’ residencies’ library shelves?” Well, wonderful or not, that dream has now been realised, and the result is this volume, containing 15 stories by an assortment of eminent writers — all contributors to some of the most prestigious literary magazines in the world.

    The stories are intended as an antidote to a

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