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Literary Center » Vanity Fair’s satire and style are as relevant as ever

In the summer of 2024, burning with anger about my place in Hollywood, where I felt I was treated as a diversity project, not as someone with credible talent, I chose Vanity Fair By William Makepeace Thackeray. Article continues after ad I picked it up because of the cover, which depicted a British aristocrat falling

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Revheart review by Graeme Armstrong – Revers rebel in Scottish political satire | Imagination

mThrough the firecracker of his debut from 2020’s The Young Team, Graeme Armstrong takes the reader from protagonist Eazy’s pre-party pharmaceutical preparation, through the resulting mysterious abandonment and euphoria, and the inevitable crash back to Earth. The narrative of distressed humor is a welcome update of Kingsley Amis’s beer-soaked anxiety in Lucky Jim. All this,

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