With the recent rise of the alt-right and the Manosphere – a collection of anti-feminist and misogynist online communities – many people rightly want to understand what is going on. Reporting on this community can be fraught, with journalistic fascination often resulting in uncritically giving leaders big platforms to promote hateful ideas. There was every risk that journalists Jamie Tahnsin and Matt Shea’s Clown World: Four years inside Andrew Tate’s Manosphere – described as a ‘gripping, shocking and often absurd story of two journalists who infiltrated Andrew Tate’s War Room’ – would follow this trend. Instead, it provides a unique insight into this world.