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laura_may's review against another edition
5.0
Fantastic writing that asks us to take a hard look in the mirror, at where the world is and where it could be if we can unite and demand systematic change. It can be a hard mirror to look at, but I’m glad to have read this.
maytaurus's review against another edition
4.0
I always love when big brained people share their insights and insecurities
jimryan's review against another edition
4.0
While this turned out to be a bit less philosophical than I had maybe expected or hoped for, and more of a traditional but thoughtful polemic, Klein does capture quite of a bit of the uncanny, the surreal, the meta-on-top-of-meta ethos of this era—she’s just too disciplined an investigative writer to lapse into the kind of literary synthesis I was yearning for, which is a compliment in its own right, I hope. I kept fearing that the doppleganger metaphor was about to become strained, but it held up quite well throughout and goes a long way toward describing and diagnosing a lot of what has turned our world inside out and upside down in recent years.
quackquackmaverick's review against another edition
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3.25
Doppelgänger version of this book makes the same arguments but coherently and plainly
lindseyzank's review against another edition
slow-paced
3.75
So thought provoking. I loved how assertive yet also diplomatic she was in her critiques of the far-right's recent deep journey into the Shadow World. The Israel-Palestine chapter gave me vocabulary and framework with which to think (and talk) about that complex crisis. Very slow at times and she gets off track / goes down rabbit holes quite a bit.
zasobel's review against another edition
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4.0
Klein is an excellent writer with a sharp mind. I appreciated this book's almost philosophical approach to the culture wars. Non-fiction about modern fascism always interests me but this one was particularly refreshing in its precision and empathy. I was struck by the prescience of the chapter on Israel, where she explores issues that shot to the top of international conversation less than a month after this book was published and have remained there for a year. She is staunchly pro-Palestine and I agree with her assessment, but my main personal takeaway from that chapter was to not discount the fierceness of anti-Semitic sentiment that is now permeating our discourse. "It's also possible that the post-Holocaust lull in open Jew-hatred is coming to a close," she writes from September 2023. I'm sure she has more to say these days about this and I'll be seeking out interviews.
eepemma's review against another edition
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4.0
ghoul_at_home's review against another edition
informative
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5.0
Its like she knew every concern Ive had since 2016 and put in it this book.