Doppelganger

Klein's premise, being persistently mistaken online for Naomi Wolf, and following that confusion into the wellness-to-conspiracy pipeline Wolf traveled, could have stayed a memoir-ish curiosity, but reviewers have credited Klein with using it to dissect something larger: how the pandemic-era right absorbed language and grievances that the left once treated as its own. Critics have responded to the propulsive, almost anxious quality of the prose, matching its subject's disorienting hall-of-mirrors logic. Where the book draws skepticism is in how much weight a personal doppelganger anecdote is asked to carry as a structuring device for a wide-ranging argument about polarization.