Amexica is the name journalist Ed Vulliamy has coined for the 2,000-mile-long borderland between the US and Mexico. It’s a land that has fascinated him for the past thirty years – “repelled and compelled”, as he puts it in the interview. “Charismatic,complex, irresistible” is how he describes it in his new book, Amexica, which he [...]
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45. Bloody borderlands
November 19th, 2010 · No Comments
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2. Don’t Go Down to the Woods…
November 5th, 2007 · No Comments
If mention of Vienna makes you think of Mozart, cream cakes and Gemütlichkeit, John Leake’s new book may make you think again. John Leake is a young Texan writer who found himself living in Vienna. The city captivated his imagination (his favourite film is The Third Man) and he soon began searching around for a [...]
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