Scott Brown

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Man vs. Mongrel

Unhurried, forbidden Mexico used to be where great characters either worked out their existential demons or were bested by them. Most famously, Malcolm Lowry’s consul in Under the Volcano and Graham Greene’s “whisky priest” in The Power and the Glory both wrestled with the human condition there, but even a......
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Man vs. Mongrel

Unhurried, forbidden Mexico used to be where great characters either worked out their existential demons or were bested by them. Most famously, Malcolm Lowry’s consul in Under the Volcano and Graham Greene’s “whisky priest” in The Power and the Glory both wrestled with the human condition there, but even a......