Angela Nagle's work has appeared in the Baffler, Jacobin, Current Affairs, the Irish Times and many other journals. She's also the co-editor of Ireland Under Austerity from Manchester University Press. Angela lives in Dublin, Ireland.
Amidst the chaos of our times, it is a relief to have a brilliant
and fearless critic like Angela Nagle to turn to. Unwilling to
stomach the liberal shibboleths that fail to adequately explain the
emergence and significance of right-wing subculture, she's the only
one willing to descend into the grimiest of Internet grottos and
give us the benefit of her incisive and cool-headed
analysis.--Amber A'Lee Frost "Chapo Trap House"
Kill All Normies is an important book, albeit one whose conclusions
are likely to prove unflattering and potentially unpopular. In it,
the alt-right emerges as something not quite as alien as many would
like to think. Rather, it is a bastardized version of the cultural
currents that most of the book's likely readers -- myself included
-- participate in and valorize. And although there may be no easy
way out of the mess we have gotten ourselves into -- stabbings in
Portland, riots in Berkeley, and Trump in the White House -- the
book's indictment of our elitist culture wars does point toward an
inevitable, if slightly horrifying conclusion: Perhaps the normies
aren't so bad after all.--Park McDougald "New York Magazine"
Nagle approaches the alt-right with understanding and patience. Her
political taxonomies are careful, her sociological explanations are
persuasive, and her psychological evaluations are considerate. She
has a genuine sympathy for her subjects and a genuine solidarity
with their victims. Most important, she shows that psychological
and economic analysis are complimentary rather than at odds. Read
Kill All Normies, then everything else Nagle has written. It'll be
time better spent than listening to your favorite podcaster
complain about "political correctness" for the nth time.--Mark
Dunbar "The Humanist"
This short head-butt of a book taught me more about recent
political events in a single rich evening of reading than I've
learned in this entire last and very unpleasant year of obsessively
monitoring cable TV, and confirmed for me something I've been
feeling for a while now, namely that social media is a toxin we are
gleefully and cluelessly injecting into ourselves, even as we ask,
"Why are we getting so mean and stupid?"--George Saunders, author,
winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize "Guardian Review Books of the
Year 2017"
With a liberal left dangerously lost in the stormy waters of middle
class self-flagellation, Angela Nagle is the lighthouse keeper
showing us the way out. Her writing is unsparing in its diagnosis
but never cruel. Unlike much of the Left who've grown far too
accustomed to marginalization and defeat, Nagle still believes in
politics as the only way of changing an increasingly brutal world.
She is the writer and social critic I've been waiting for.--Connor
Kilpatrick "Jacobin"
Angela Nagle is one of the few writers anywhere who has
consistently refused to hold a double standard for virulent racism
and misogyny even when it came in edgy countercultural packaging.
Kill All Normies is a brilliant exposé of the new faces of online
nihilism and fascism, which can no longer be explained away as
doing it "for the lulz".--David Golumbia, author of The Politics of
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