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Savage aperçus: Fake Accounts, by Lauren Oyler, reviewed

27 February 2021

9:00 AM

27 February 2021

9:00 AM

Fake Accounts Lauren Oyler

4th Estate, pp.272, 12.99

Lauren Oyler is viral and vicious. A critic with a reputation for pulling no punches, she is known for delivering refreshingly sane judgments of overhyped, commercially successful books. She is not alone in her ruthlessness — there are a number of critics who are at least equally ferocious about deflating promotional balloons, among them Merve Emre and Christian Lorentzen — but she is the hater who makes the greatest waves on the internet.

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