The dangers of choosing to play the shame game

Non-fiction: Is Shame Necessary? New Uses for an Old Tool. By Jennifer Jacquet. Allen Lane, €23. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. By Jon Ronson. Picador, €19. Reviewed by Anna Carey

Jonah Lehrer destroyed his career by fabricating quotations by Bob Dylan. Picture: Getty

Last year, while on holiday in Paris, I went to a superb exhibition about the 1944 liberation of the city. The exhibition was arranged chronologically, so photographs of German soldiers strutting ...