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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arwa Mahdawi

American Canto by Olivia Nuzzi review – insufferable filler that sidesteps the real issues

Olivia Nuzzi in 2023.
Olivia Nuzzi in 2023. Photograph: Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

Did he take me seriously?” Olivia Nuzzi wonders in the midst of her infamous alleged affair with Robert F Kennedy Jr. Nuzzi, then Washington correspondent for New York magazine, has just learned that she and the Politician, as she calls RFK Jr in her new book, may overlap during a visit to Mar-a-Lago. Nuzzi, worried Donald Trump will catch on and start spreading rumours, convenes an emergency meeting with the Politician to strategise. RFK Jr – who has denied having an affair with Nuzzi – doesn’t see the big deal.

So, she agonises “Did he take me seriously?” and reflects that she had “little cause to consider the question before now.”

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