“For years I struggled privately with a problem I considered rather niche: being perennially confused and conflated with another writer and outspoken political analyst named Naomi, Naomi Wolf,” says Naomi Klein, author of “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World.” “Once best known for best-selling feminist books,” Klein notes, “Wolf has more recently distinguished herself as an industrial-scale disseminator of vaccine-related medical misinformation.” Instead of lamenting her “doppelgänger woes,” Klein got curious and took a deep dive into the cultural and academic mythology around doubles. “The figure of the doppelgänger has been used for centuries to warn us of shadow versions of our collective selves,” Naomi says. “Have our doppelgängers overtaken us? Not yet, not all of us, anyway. But the pandemic, layered on top of so many other long-repressed emergencies, has taken humanity somewhere we have not been before, a place close but different, a kind of doppelgänger world.” | 📷 of Naomi Wolf by Jeenah Moon for @nytimes #doppelganger #nonfiction #naomiklein #booktok #nytopinion