Alex Saveliev

Backwoods

By Alex Saveliev | December 2020

Hot on the heels of Ron Howard’s The Hillbilly Elegy comes Thomas Smith’s Backwoods, another cautionary (read: misguided) tale about the murderous cesspool that is the American…

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