"Fantastic and intensely of-the-moment, The Castle explores the nature of male anxiety, the spiralling delusions of the internet, the destructive allure of anti-woke defiance, the obsequious flattery of AI chatbots, the impunity of the mega-rich and so many other currents that are currently roiling our existence. The genuine horrors of contemporary life are rendered in a way that manages to be so antic and perversely fun, without whitewashing any of the horror itself . It's a dogged feat of investigation from one of our greatest non-fiction storytellers." -- Patrick Radden Keefe, author of London Falling "Ridiculously compelling and wonderfully weird, this is a book that helps us understand why so many men seem to be unraveling, filling their lives with ill-conceived dreams and self-performance. The Castle is vintage Ronson: wise, timely and extremely funny." -- Louis Theroux "Addictively readable, I loved The Castle . This is a much-needed book -- an anti-sensationalist yet utterly compelling investigation into the masculinity crisis." --Dolly Alderton, author of Good Material " The Castle is by turns funny and fright­ening, dark and disarming.

It's a caution­ary tale of our times that deserves to be on the shelf of any reader who seeks to make sense of the perplexing, and sometimes toxic, manosphere." --BookPage , starred review "Brilliant.A blockbuster portrait of men gone mad." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Jon Ronson is an essential guide in these disorienting times. I love everything that Ronson writes but The Castle is a particular gem, a story of his own making in the collapsing world of twenty-first century masculinity. Wonderfully breathless and weird and open, it feels hallucinatory and all too real at the same time." --Sam Knight, author of The Premonitions Bureau " The Castle is an investigation into one man that broadens into an enquiry into the state of all men. Jon Ronson is such a companiable narrator, and this book is by turns horrifying, hilarious, bizarre and gripping" --Ed Caesar, author of Moth and the Mountain "Every Jon Ronson book has made me see the world differently.

Nobody tells an unbelievable-but-true story like him. He's done it again with The Castle : I was utterly gripped from page one. If you want a totally compelling live mystery that will make you burn for justice, READ THIS BOOK URGENTLY." --Marina Hyde.