Otherwise Russia may risk being the eternal debutante: chattering prettily to all her suitors, but never getting very far with any of them.

ECONOMIST: Russia

Wilson, his son, takes a summer job at a scandal rag, where no amount of ink on his sleeves lives down the day he arrives at work wearing his bowed dancing shoes from debutante balls on the ritzy North Shore.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

And of course, there are the watches, gleaming demurely in their vitrines, exuding the gamine charm of a debutante whose hand you wonder if you dare ask for at the dance.

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