Meet Ani, Dean, and Kendra, editorial assistants at a weekly magazine in New York. They’re ambitious yet frustrated, smart yet not very hard-working, and they’re at the center of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s sharp-edged dramedy Gloria. The ...
Becky Sharp, the anti-heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray’s sprawling 19th-century novel Vanity Fair, is a handful. Ambitious but poor, charming but unprincipled, she’s now making her way up the ladder of British society in a ...