- Published: 13 November 2025
- ISBN: 9781405983747
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $32.00
Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
(and other lessons from history about living through an information crisis)
- Published: 13 November 2025
- ISBN: 9781405983747
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $32.00
How fortunate we are to have Naomi Alderman as our companion in these confusing, challenging and dangerous times. Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today is a serious — and also very funny — history of how we got to this point in the information revolution and a wise guide to navigating our way through it. Essential reading for the 21st century
Erica Wagner
Nobody who surveys today's toxic internet can doubt that something is badly wrong. But now those of us who want to come through the information crisis wiser, better, and more deeply connected to other human beings have a trusted guide we can rely on
Bill Thompson
Brisk, insightful, thought-provoking and powerfully empathetic: I started laughing and learning things on the first page and didn't stop until I hit the last one. Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today is the product of really deep thinking and a tremendously generous mind. It is the antidote to doom scrolling: a book that made me think in an entirely new way about the age we live in and which will make you excited about our era rather than merely terrified of it
Ian Dunt
The best book about the Internet I've ever read. Changed how I think about human history, the people I fight with on social media AND my own relationship with my phone, which is quite a lot for 150 pages
Jonn Elledge