The book is riveting and darkly funny and, in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.

Howley manages to push beyond partisan hack work to lay bare the flaws or biases in everyone’s read on Reality.

The book is full of suggestive swerves and leaps of association, Howley’s attempts at getting us to look again at subjects and stories that might have been shocking once upon a time, but which we’ve grown used to living with.

Wide-ranging, often chilling.

Provocative.

Fascinating.