The Braindead Megaphone

Very refreshing and enlightening and entertaining set of essays. Saunders has the ability to vary his tone widely, from angry masked by humour ( in an essay on the decline of American culture) to fanboy enthusiasm (in a delightful “introduction” to Huckleberry Finn). He does occasionally go on for too long, but this is a small price to pay for the humour, the opening up of the mind, the compassion and humanity infused into each essay. Highly recommended.