Naomi Klein

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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.

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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.

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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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Doppelganger

NOW IN PAPERBACK!

 

Also available, a free 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.

 

Doppelganger was the inaugural winner of the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for several other awards.  It 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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Special Announcements

  • Doppelganger is the inaugural winner of the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and is now in paperback in the US and Canada (September 10th) and in UK with a new cover!
  • Naomi has joined Zeteo, a new journalism site founded by Mehdi Hasan, as a contributor. Listen to Naomi and Mehdi in the first episode of their podcast Unshocked here, and subscribe to Zeteo now to get more!
  • 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 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction (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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Latest
News

Special Announcements

  • Doppelganger is the inaugural winner of the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and is now in paperback in the US and Canada (September 10th) and in UK with a new cover!
  • Naomi has joined Zeteo, a new journalism site founded by Mehdi Hasan, as a contributor. Listen to Naomi and Mehdi in the first episode of their podcast Unshocked here, and subscribe to Zeteo now to get more!
  • 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.

Read Latest Articles

Latest News

Special Announcements

  • Doppelganger is the inaugural winner of the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and is now in paperback in the US and Canada (September 10th) and in UK with a new cover!
  • Naomi has joined Zeteo, a new journalism site founded by Mehdi Hasan, as a contributor. Listen to Naomi and Mehdi in the first episode of their podcast Unshocked here, and subscribe to Zeteo now to get more!
  • 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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Naomi Klein is looking forward to virtual and in person events to launch Doppelganger beginning in September 2023. Check naomiklein.org/events for more info.

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Why we need Arundhati Roy

October 19, 2024
By Naomi Klein 

 

It is vanishingly rare for a writer to both confront the ugliness of humanity and still search for its beauty. Roy is that rare writer.

There are few activities I enjoy more than praising Arundhati Roy, who has been awarded the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize. Under normal circumstances, I would be more than happy to recall favourite characters in her gorgeous novels and some of her greatest one-liners.

And no, I’m not talking about the ones about “another world… breathing” that were the italicised email signatures of half the people you knew in the early 2000s. I’m not even referring to “the pandemic is a portal” – those words that pierced the early shock of Covid-19 and helped so many of us to grasp that this cataclysm was going to take us somewhere new and different, and that we had urgent choices to make about what we wanted to bring on that journey.

I’m talking about deeper cuts, lesser-known framings that also helped us get our bearings and keep our wits when history suddenly started moving in fast-forward.

 

How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war

October 5, 2024
By Naomi Klein 

 

A year later, memorials to the 7 October attacks use art, virtual reality and dark tourism to stir support for limitless violence. But there is a different way to remember.

A slick, high-priced television production. Speeches from top officials. A live audience of thousands. A unified show of collective sorrow and military resolve.

That is how the Israeli government hoped to mark the passing of one year since Hamas’s surprise and bloody attacks last 7 October. But little has gone according to plan.

 

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