The internet hasn’t yet destroyed books wholesale, but it has brought some genres close to extinction. Google Translate has generally superseded language dictionaries; a student is more likely to turn to ChatGPT than a textbook; Mills and Boon can’t compete with the internet’s infinite erotica. There is, then, a particular irony in the fact that Ed Coper’s new book Angertainment straddles the archaic genres of political pamphlet and humorous non-fiction as it examines the distraction and rage that drive social