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Satire and settled scores: Universality by Natasha Brown reviewed

Skewering journalistic pretension to authority is the main business of a novel that contrives to be both viciously accurate and weirdly off the mark

Anthony Cummins
Natasha Brown in Cologne in 2022. Henning Kaiser/dpa/Alamy Live News
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 05 April 2025
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  • Universality

    Natasha Brown

    Faber, pp. 176, £14

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