Synopsis
Jon Ronson's captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.
A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Through social media, justice has been democratized and the silent majority are getting a voice. But are we using our voice for good?
Instead we are mercilessly finding people’s faults and defining the boundaries of normality by...
Details
05 September 2024336 pages
9781035040070Imprint: Picador
Reviews
He is such an exceptional writer . . . A perfect sense of comic timing throughout, but he manages to deal with profound subjects . . . Such a great book. We're buying it!Claudia Winkleman, The BBC Radio 2 Arts Show
A magnificent book, subtly argued, often painfully funny and yet deeply serious . . . I'm not sure I can recommend it highly enough.Daily Mail
A work of original, inspired journalism, it considers the complex dynamics between those who shame and those who are shamed, both of whom can become the focus of social media's grotesque, disproportionate judgments.Financial Times
Certainly, no reader could finish it without feeling a need to be gentler online, to defer judgment, not to press the retweet button, to resist that primal impulse to stoke the fires of shame.The Times
