In “Salvage,” which Brand calls “an autobiography of the autobiography of reading,” she returns to some of the 18th- and 19th-century social-realist novels — “Vanity Fair,” “Jane ...
His Vanity Fair brimmed with tales of obscene wealth, celebrity and riveting true crime — and, if the stars aligned, as it did for Dominick Dunne’s seminal reporting on the O.J. Simpson trial ...