How to Look Away: On American Cruelty and the Refusal to Disappear

by Daniel Peña

A riveting, kaleidoscopic portrait of the American compulsion toward cruelty and our power to subvert it from an award-winning contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times. In How to Look Away, Daniel Peña explores how fringe elements of his Texas childhood—AM radio, conspiracy theories, Post-Cold War paranoia—came to dominate the American political discourse and contributed to our extreme tolerance of human rights abuses against migrants from Latin America and elsewhere. He asks: What co

ISBN: 9780593596395

208 pages

Published: 2026-10-06

Publisher: One World

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