Office fiction is deliberately and narrowly construed as being about manners, sociability, gossip, the micro-struggles for rank and status—in other words, “office politics”—rather than about the work that is done in offices.
In Dissent, Nikil Saval writes about white-collar alienation and the art and politics of office fiction.
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