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On the Iron River

Rachel Nolan: Guns across the Border, 21 November 2024

Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border 
by Ieva Jusionyte.
California, 333 pp., £24, April, 978 0 520 39595 4
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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling 
by Jason deLeón.
Viking, 367 pp., £28.99, March, 978 0 593 29858 9
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... who didn’t want to die of exposure had to hire what were called guides, polleros or coyotes.As Jason deLeón wrote in The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (2015), ‘prevention through deterrence’ enlisted the harsh natural landscape and its predatory animal population to kill ...

Excessive Bitters

Jenny Diski: The blind man who went around the world, 7 September 2006

A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveller 
by Jason Roberts.
Simon and Schuster, 382 pp., £12.99, August 2006, 0 7432 3966 0
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... independent. Choosing to sit on her bed when the light of the world was dimming was not an option. Jason Roberts describes something of the same behaviour in James Holman who, in 1810, suddenly went blind at the age of 25: Once hope of a cure is extinguished in the newly blind adult, there is typically a period of self-mourning, in which the individual ...

The Tower

Andrew O’Hagan, 7 June 2018

... why were the firefighters not coming up with breathing equipment and helping them down? Why indeed.Jason Garcia, Jessica’s cousin, lived in a neighbouring block and when he saw the tower was on fire he called Ramiro, Jessica’s dad. ‘We have been evacuated,’ Ramiro said. ‘I’m here with Adriana and Melanie’ – Jessica’s mother and older sister ...

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