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“... coterie of writers or journalists on the far right. In Pincher’s work the two obsessions chase each other’s tails: the alleged need to protect national security legitimates the compulsive secrecy, while the need to expose Communist infiltration legtimates attempts to pierce that secrecy. Pincher has been going round and round this mulberry bush for ...”

“... Grandjean, dated 7 March 1921. It is not first-hand, but it is based on the eye-witness account of Owen Cattell, another of the ‘slacker’ crew at Salina Cruz. According to this, Cravan left Salina Cruz to sail up the coast to Puerto Angel, a journey of four days ‘in his little boat’. (The distance is about 150 nautical miles across the Gulf of ...”

“... You’d never know from the outside that inside they’re auctioning off the fresh spoils of the chase. When I was there, at seven o’clock one March morning, a small area of a vast concrete-floored shed held rows of yellow boxes filled with fish packed on crushed ice: cod longer than my arm, skate like kites made of mangled flesh, the astonished eyes of ...”