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Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of nine critically acclaimed books published in over 30 languages. The University of British Columbia Professor of Climate Justice.
Naomi Klein
JOURNALIST | AUTHOR |
FILMMAKER | ACTIVIST
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of nine critically acclaimed books published in over 30 languages. The University of British Columbia Professor of Climate Justice.
I asked video wizard Colby Richardson to make a book trailer for Doppelganger. He went and made a beautiful and trippy work of art. I’m so grateful. Welcome to The Mirror World…
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Now available, Israel, Palestine, and the Doppelganger Effect, a standalone excerpt from Doppelganger that includes Chapter 13: The Nazi in the Mirror and Chapter 14: The Unshakable Ethnic Double plus an introduction and endnotes – free to read and share here.
On its release in September 2023, Doppelganger hit multiple bestseller lists in the US, including the New York Times and the Independent Booksellers Association national and regional lists, and it was a #1 bestseller in Canada for several weeks.
In December 2023, Doppelganger was selected for best-of-the year lists including The New York Times Notable Books of 2023, Time Magazine Top Ten Non-Fiction Books of the Year, a Guardian Best Idea Book of 2023, The Times (UK) Books of the Year, an Audible Books Best of the Year for non-fiction audiobooks, Slate’s 10 Best Books of 2023, Amazon’s Top 20 Nonfiction Books of 2023, The New York Times list of Best Audiobooks of 2023, Goodreads Choice Awards nominee for Best Nonfiction of the Year, where it came #6 out of 15 nominees, and more. New York Magazine’s Vulture named Doppelganger #1 Book of the Year:
“No recent book has better captured the absurdities and perils of the current moment in politics and culture and digital life than Doppelganger…. Other Naomi’s descent into right-wing madness is just a jumping-off point for Klein to explore a shadow world that exists concurrent to our own, where facts are malleable and disinformation is abundant, where conspiracy theories distort and exploit our very legitimate fears, and where fascism can arise as democracy’s evil twin.”
“This book is a must-read even before Klein gets to unforgettable observations about ethnic doppelgängers and her experience as a Jewish woman who once reported from Gaza. With humor and empathy and a sharp eye that can deconstruct systemic injustices with the same ease as Twitter drama, Klein uses copious film and literary references as she skewers everything from the wellness industry to AI.”
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- Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, is a New York Times, independent bookstore and international bestseller being translated into more than 10 languages, and is on numerous best-of-the-year lists. It won a 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award and is shortlisted for the 2024 Writers’ Prize (UK). It is a New York Times Notable book of 2023.
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- Naomi writes a regular column for The Guardian US
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Special Announcements
- Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, is a New York Times, independent bookstore and international bestseller being translated into more than 10 languages, and is on numerous best-of-the-year lists. It won a 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award and is shortlisted for the 2024 Writers’ Prize (UK). It is a New York Times Notable book of 2023.
- Be the first to know about Naomi’s new projects by signing up to her free newsletter!
- Naomi writes a regular column for The Guardian US
- Naomi is the UBC Professor of Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia.
Latest News
Special Announcements
- Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, is a New York Times, independent bookstore and international bestseller being translated into more than 10 languages, and is on numerous best-of-the-year lists. It won a 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award and is shortlisted for the 2024 Writers’ Prize (UK). It is a New York Times Notable book of 2023.
- Be the first to know about Naomi’s new projects by signing up to her free newsletter!
- Naomi writes a regular column for The Guardian US
- Naomi is the UBC Professor of Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia.
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The Iron Dome is Global and so is the resistance
March 2, 2024
By Naomi Klein
Reprinted from a speech virtually delivered on February 24, 2024 to the And Still We Rise festival in the UK.
When my dear friend Asad Rehman asked me to help close this gathering, his specific instructions were to speak about the political situation today and to do it in a way ‘filled with hope’. A bit of a tall order and I’m not entirely sure I can deliver. Let’s see what we can do instead….The last time I was in London, it was late September. Just five months ago. But five months that feel like a hundred years. One hundred years of Palestinian parents wailing over their murdered and maimed children. One hundred years of bombed schools and raided hospitals and desecrated mosques. One hundred years of Israeli soldiers making TikToks of their war crimes. One hundred years of teens trained in fascism blocking trucks filled with food. One hundred years of open calls to annihilate more than two million captive, occupied, ghettoized people. One hundred years of giddily expressed plans to turn Gaza into a parking lot. An Israeli beach town. A museum. A slaughterhouse. A buffer zone.
The Zone of Interest is about the danger of ignoring atrocities – including in Gaza
March 14, 2024
By Naomi Klein
If Jonathan Glazer’s brave Oscar acceptance speech made you uncomfortable, that was the point
It’s an Oscar tradition: a serious political speech pierces the bubble of glamour and self-congratulation. Warring responses ensue. Some proclaim the speech an example of artists at their culture-shifting best; others an egotistical usurpation of an otherwise celebratory night. Then everyone moves on. Yet I suspect that the impact of Jonathan Glazer’s time-stopping speech at last Sunday’s Academy Awards will be significantly more lasting, with its meaning and import analyzed for many years to come. Glazer was accepting the award for best international film for The Zone of Interest, which is inspired by the real life of Rudolf Höss, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The film follows Höss’s idyllic domestic life with his wife and children, which unfolds in a stately home and garden immediately adjacent to the concentration camp. Glazer has described his characters not as monsters but as “non-thinking, bourgeois, aspirational-careerist horrors”, people who manage to turn profound evil into white noise.
