by NRB | 25 Jul 2024 | Non-fiction |
In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, our need to understand the US feels more immediate than ever. What sort of society is America? Can it, in fact, even be regarded as a society? The country has an exalted view of itself as a land of...
by NRB | 24 Jan 2019 | Non-fiction |
In his introduction to this fascinating collection of writing from the American hobo era Iain McIntyre tells us how that way of life, which began due to economic necessity, became so much more. The material gathered in On the Fly! reflects the politics of the early...
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