Brave, clear and necessary ... A steady, smart, sometimes agonising account of the rising influence of the manosphere -- Tom Lamont * Observer * Bloodworth gets up close and personal, grappling with how and why ancient myths of masculinity are being resurrected ... It's this tension - between wanting to look away and the need to engage - that makes Bloodworth's book so compelling * Financial Times * The sheer, Dickensian range of the miscreants that Bloodworth has assembled is remarkable ... This is an impressive feat of research * Sunday Times * Bloodworth is one of those rare journalists who sets the standard for everybody else ... [ Bloodworth] maintains an uncompromising moral clarity but backs it up with the sort of forensic and nuanced handling of detail rarely seen from other polemicists ... The one book that everyone should read this summer -- Kate Maltby * Prospect * Sobering * Guardian * [ An] absorbing look at one of contemporary society's most disturbing trends * The Week * Timely and disturbing ... A crucial exploration of the modern masculinity ecosystem ... If you found Netflix's Adolescence to be eye-opening, then James Bloodworth's Lost Boys is the perfect companion piece: an in-depth, personal and authoritative account of the spaces where this new misogyny takes hold -- Sarah Owen MP * PoliticsHome * Timely * Economist * Bloodworth displays a sharp humor in laying bare the absurdity underpinning these men's various enterprises ... A comprehensive, important, and enjoyable read -- Sarah AlKahly-Mills * LA Review of Books * Exceptional... Bloodworth is the best young left wing writer Britain has produced in years * Observer on Hired * A very discomforting book, no matter what your politics might be... very good. * Sunday Times on Hired * Potent, disturbing and revelatory... [ Bloodworth] sets out to see something we should know more about than we do, and he tells the story of what he found well * Evening Standard on Hired * An extraordinary and unsettling journey into the way modern Britons work. It is Down and Out In Paris and London for the gig economy age * Matthew d'Ancona on Hired *
