1.   This bawdy academic satire, with its potentially offensive laddish point of view, turns out to be a traditional romantic narrative.

2.   Bradbury wrote short stories as well as six novels, many of them academic satires.

3.   For the past half-century, academic satire has remained a staple of our literary culture.

4.   Like its step-sibling, the newsroom novel, the academic satire has always seemed to promise more than it delivers.

5.   Once upon a time, the world of academic satire seemed to be a British protectorate.

6.   Smiley has wowed readers for years with her emotional clarity and her visual breadth, but nobody expected her to master the academic satire, too.