Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World [Paperback]

A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Women's Prize for Nonfiction

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER | National Indie Bestseller

ANew York Timesnotable book of 2023 |Vultures #1 book of 2023
One ofSlates ten best books of 2023 | AGuardianbest ideas book of 2023 |One ofTimes ten best books of 2023 |Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award

Ive been raving about Naomi KleinsDoppelganger. . . I cant think of another text that better captures the berserk period were living through. Michelle Goldberg,The New York Times

If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one. Katie Roiphe,The New York Times Book Review(Editors Choice)

What if you woke up one morning and found youd acquired another selfa double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes youd devoted your life to fighting against?

Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experienceshe was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have belc5