James Walton

Satire misfires: Our Country Friends, by Gary Shteyngart, reviewed

Shteyngart sets out to explore the confusion of American liberals, caught between extremes of right and left, but ends up inadvertently exemplifying it

Gary Shteyngart. [Getty Images]

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