A review by trin
The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders

4.0

The political/cultural essays are great and feel ahead of their time; the travelogues are rich and strange and wonderful; the pieces about literature hint at why Saunders is clearly a good teacher. Meanwhile, the satirical writing is cringey and awful. (It's official: I don't like David Sedaris doing overly obvious and cynical fiction, and I don't like George Saunders' subtle-as-an-anvil "nonfiction" satire.) So: skip those or hurry through them, and this is a really strong collection.