Best for: Anyone who wants to learn a little bit more about modern-day terrorism and extremism. In a nutshell: Author Ebner adopts different identities to explore – online and in person – different extremist groups, from neo-Nazis to ‘trad wives.’ Worth quoting: “Almost everything is gamified today, and that includes terrorism.” Why I chose it: It just sounded interesting. Review: This book is interesting and deeply disturbing, but it also feels more like it should have been a multi-part investigative magazine series in something like […]
My Last Review for 2021
Going Dark: The Secrete Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner