Them

“Hilarious, disturbing.”

—Patricia Cohen, The New York Times

“The fabric of his narrative is a delightful, confiding breeziness—often very, very funny—yet he fills it with very precise reporting. . . . Jon Ronson is a splendid tour guide.”

—Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun

“An entertaining and thought-provoking attempt to understand the mindset of some of the world’s political and religious fringe-dwellers.”

—Time

“A picaresque journey into the wonderland of delusional fanatics, often scary, yet wildly funny. . . . Ronson’s eye for the telling detail and his gift for capturing hilarious dialogue make this an entertaining read, but laughs aside, this is serious and thought-provoking stuff, and likely to nettle left, right, and some in the middle too.”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred)

“Ronson is a tenacious, often courageous reporter, whose keen sense of humor never detracts from the integrity of his journalism.”

—Sunday Times

“Wry, detached . . . raises important questions about public paranoia.”

—Damien Cave, Salon.com

“Jon Ronson is himself an extremist—extremely funny, likable, and smart. He doesn’t believe his subjects’ loopy dogma, but his empathy has the curious effect that you come away cheered by the human capacity to like other people.”

—Sarah Vowell, author of Take the Cannoli

“It is how [Ronson] reveals the all-too-real machinations of Western society’s radical fringe and its various minions that makes this enjoyable work rather remarkable.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Undoubtedly one of the most provocative books to be published recently, Them is at times funny, other times unsettling, but always astonishing.”

—Gavin Quinn, Booklist

“Made me laugh out loud, as well as shudder, when I read it earlier this year. Now, as we all reel from the consequences of September 11, his book seems even more relevant.”

—Justine Picardie, The Daily Telegraph (London) [A Daily Telegraph “Book of the Year”]

“An extraordinary tale, made more extraordinary by Ronson’s eye for wacky detail and flair for comic dialogue.”

—The Irish Times

“Ronson’s wide-eyed, guileless tone collapses the gap between ‘them’ and ‘us’ and brilliantly conveys the larger picture.”

—Metro London