Doppelganger by Naomi Klein may just be the best book I’ve read so far this year.
I found the Goodreads summary a little underwhelming, so here’s my own take:

In Doppelganger, Klein draws from her personal experience of being mistaken for Naomi Wolf—a feminist scholar turned alt-right conspiracy theorist—to explore what she calls the “Mirror World.” This concept serves as a lens through which she examines the doppelgänger not just as a personal phenomenon, but as a broader cultural metaphor. It becomes a way to understand Western society’s fractured identity, as well as a surface-level dive into the alt-right political pipeline. Klein’s use of the doppelgänger as a device to reflect society back to itself is both compelling and effective.

What I appreciated most about Klein’s writing is that she doesn’t simply use the book to chastise individuals across the political spectrum. Instead, she digs into the roots of our increasingly polarized world, challenging the reader to examine their own beliefs. While Doppelganger is certainly not a defense of alt-right ideology or its enablers, it does offer nuanced reflections on how we might begin to bridge divides—anchored in the idea that true power lies not in individualism, but in collective action.

Klein uses the COVID-19 pandemic as a jumping off point into the Mirror World, conducting a sort of post-mortem on how lockdowns affected society well beyond physical health. The result is a thought-provoking and timely exploration of identity, ideology, and the strange parallel realities we now inhabit.

I took pages and pages of notes while reading this, and I highly recommend it.