Bloomsbury Magic Pill How the New Weight Loss Drugs Will Change Your Life and the World.

by Johann Hari

Bloomsbury Magic Pill How the New Weight Loss Drugs Will Change Your Life and the World ABISBOOK Bloomsbury.

352 pages, Paperback

Published May 22, 2025

About the author

Johann Hari is an award-winning British journalist and playwright. He was a columnist for The Independent and the Huffington Post, and has won awards for his war reporting. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Le Monde, El Mundo, the Melbourne Age, El Pais, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Irish Times, The Guardian, Ha'aretz, the Times Literary Supplement, Attitude (Britain's main gay magazine), the New Statesman and a wide range of other international newspapers and magazines.

Hari describes himself as a "European social democrat", who believes that markets are "an essential tool to generate wealth" but must be matched by strong democratic governments and strong trade unions or they become "disastrous". He appears regularly as an arts critic on the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review, and he is a book critic for Slate. He has been named by the Daily Telegraph as one of the most influential people on the left in Britain, and by the Dutch magazine Winq as one of the twenty most influential gay people in the world.

After two scandals in 2011 involving plagiarism and malicious editing of Wikipedia pages, Hari was forced to return the prestigious Orwell prize he had won in 2008, and lost his position at The Independent.

Reviews

[Isabelle Maker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredibly interesting and insightful not only around these new weight loss drugs but also looking at why our society needs them in the first place

[Matt Johnston · Rating 5 out of 5]

This guy writes really fluent well researched books.

[Megan Gant · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating subject and this book offers an un-biased, well researched viewpoint. I thought it was great, even though he uses a LOT of personal anecdotes which very conveniently illustrate exactly the point he's trying to make... nevertheless, an engaging read about an important topic.