Bunk (book)

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News is a 2017 book by Kevin Young that examines the history of hoaxes and fake news.

Reception

Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Colin Dickey found the book "a wild, incisive, exhilarating tour". While complementing the research that had gone into the book, Annalisa Quinn—in a review published by NPR—found that Young's "knotted, clotted style" frustrating.