1. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe This 1987 book is a modern classic, full of wit, satire and gripping narrative twirls. The book epitomises the 1980s, and was a giant critical success, becoming a bestseller. The hero here is one Sherman McCoy, a highly-paid Wall Street bond trader and a self-proclaimed “Master…
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“Wakefield” Review
Wakefield [2016] – ★★★★ Based on a short story by E.L. Doctorow (which, in turn, is a re-telling of the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne) and shot over just twenty days, Wakefield is a film about Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston (Drive (2011), The Infiltrator (2016)), a busy city lawyer, who is silently enduring a personal crisis….
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