The Perfect Couple's mega-rich are a good punch bag, but why not satirise the merely wealthy? | Martha GillCurrent satirical narratives highlight the flaws of the super-rich but overlook the responsibilities of the upper-middle class and their complicity in economic structures.
Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman review acid comedy of precarityAnxiety has shifted to defeatism in contemporary American novels.Novels of manners thrive on rigid social hierarchies.