The Hobo

by Robert Suits

The Hobo Robert Suits

Reception

2026
Times Literary Supplement
Reviewed by Peter Coates, 30 September
2026
New York Review of Books
Reviewed by Caroline Fraser, 1 October

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New York Review of Books · 1 October 2026

Boxcar to Nowhere

American lore about hoboes has sugared over the economic and environmental forces that drove people from their homes and onto the rails and roads in the first place, as a new history lays out.

By Caroline Fraser

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Times Literary Supplement · 30 September 2026

Riding the rails

Jumping freight trains across turn-of-the-century America

By Peter Coates

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