Book Review
Shadow Selves, Lurking Fascism and Radical Compassion: Reviewing Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger
A review of Naomi Klein’s new book about Naomi Wolf, confusion and fascism.
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7 min readOct 10, 2023
Many confuse leftist writer Naomi Klein with right-wing writer Naomi Wolf. There’s a rhyme on Twitter.
It’s also the framing story for Klein’s new book. Naomi Klein sees Namoi Wolf as her doppelgänger, a German word for an uncanny evil twin. When Wolf became one of America’s biggest sources of COVID-19 disinformation, Klein went on a personal research journey across health, history, fascism, colonialism, the climate, and the future. She finds eerie conclusions.
Wolf vs. Klein.
Naomi Klein is painfully aware she always gets mistaken for Naomi Wolf. They have similar names, looks, religions, and careers, and both write “big idea” non-fiction books, sometimes with overlapping topics!
