FEAR: An Alternative History of the World
by Robert Peckham (Profile, $39.99)
“Peckham shows that fear comes in many flavours: simmering anxiety, sweaty panic, jittery phobias, angry rage.
Fear is all around us. It was a key weapon in the recent election, where hoardings on every street corner warned of the consequences of letting any of the others take power. During the Covid-19 pandemic, just the mere proximity of other people was enough to invoke fear. Even the
