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Contemporary and literary satire

Satire set in the recognizable present can aim at targets you deal with every week: the office, the family group chat, the language of public relations, the systems that decide who gets ahead. These novels exaggerate familiar social life until its rules and pretensions show plainly.

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Read the profile for the target first. A send-up of corporate messaging asks less of you than a book about race, class or violence. Then check the tone: some satire keeps a warm view of its characters, while other books turn darker and use the comedy to make a reader uncomfortable.

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