This book meanders a lot but usually manages to stay pretty interesting and engaging. It covers some history into how psychopaths were diagnosed and treated previously (using a lot of techniques that would be considered inethical today), and also how they are diagnosed and treated today (using t...
I’m just going to say it. I love anything that Jon Ronson writes. The blend of the absurd stories he tends to track down mixed with his own personal oddities and anxieties are a recipe for fun reading. From credit card fraud, to mysterious murders, to indigo children, to various religious cults, ...
What is the Bilderberg Group? Is it a self-interested but vaguely benevolent private club composed of international movers & shakers who come together annually to discuss "government and politics, finance, industry, labour, education and communications"? Or is it a nefarious group of power broke...
After watching the movie version of The Men Who Stare At Goats, I figured that there must be a kernel of truth to it coated with several layers of Hollywood bullshit so I read the book to get an idea of what the real story was. I thought I’d get a funny story about some stupid things the militar...
He was a quite feral-looking man with yellow-white hair and red eyes, as if he’d spent his life in battle, battling psychopaths, the very forces of evil. It was exciting to finally meet him. While names like Elliott Barker and Gary Maier had all but faded away, surviving only in obscure reports d...
His photograph was a photograph of my face. His Twitter name was @Jon_Ronson. His most recent tweet, which appeared as I stared in surprise at his timeline, read: “Going home. Gotta get the recipe for a huge plate of guarana and mussel in a bap with mayonnaise :D #yummy.” ...
‘Hello?’ I said. ‘HELLO!’ yelled Frank Sidebottom. ‘ . . . Frank?’ I said. ‘OH YES,’ said Frank Sidebottom. We hadn’t spoken in fifteen years. ‘It’s been so long,’ I said. ...
And I Just Said It In February 2010, the broadcaster Ray Gosling was arrested on suspicion of murder, having confessed on his BBC East Midlands TV show Inside Out to the mercy killing of his lover, Tony, sixteen years earlier. The papers were filled with supportive articles from right-to-die advo...