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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

5 April 2025

9:00 AM

5 April 2025

9:00 AM

Universality Natasha Brown

Faber, pp.176, 14.99

In 2023 Natasha Brown published an article taking the reader behind the scenes of two interviews that she had given to newspapers in Australia and Spain while promoting her debut novel, Assembly. The point was to expose sleight of hand in the resulting write-ups, to say nothing of shabby conduct more generally.

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