The Briefcase: A Reality TV Show Straight From the Victorian Era
The CBS show is selling 19th-century entertainment that exploits poverty to 21st-century American viewers.
Genevieve Valentine
Genevieve Valentine is the author of the novels Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti and Persona. She also writes DC Comics’s Catwoman. Her work has appeared in The AV Club and the LA Review of Books, and on NPR.