One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling writer Chuck Klosterman “gives up great specifics, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral computations in this take a look at our love affair using the anti-hero” (New York mag).

Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist” for THE BRAND NEW York Times Publication, has walked into the darkness. In I Use the Dark Hat, he questions the modern understanding of villainy. Whenever we classify somebody as a poor person, what are we really saying, and about I Wear the Black Hat: Essays on Villains (Real and Imagined) what makes we therefore obsessed with stating it? How does the lifestyle of malevolence operate? What was therefore Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don’t we observe Bernhard Goetz the same manner we see Batman? Who is more worthy of our vitriol-Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson’s second-worst decision? And just why is normally Klosterman still haunted by some child he knew for just one week in 1985?

Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals, I Wear the Dark Hat delivers perceptive observations over the complexity from the antihero (seemingly the only sort of hero America still creates). As the Los Angeles Times records: “By underscoring the contradictory, often knee-jerk methods we encounter the heroes and villains of our lifestyle, Klosterman illustrates the passionate but imperfect computations that have come to define American culture-and probably also American morality.” I Wear the Black Hat is a rare example of significant criticism that’s immediately accessible and really, really funny.