Read On the Road

Two visceral realist poets hunted through Mexico City and beyond by fifty narrators.

An old professor drives to receive an honour and revisits his life in dreams.

A dog detective and a rabbity thing on a road trip through American kitsch.

Steinbeck drives around America with a poodle in 1960 to see what it has become.

A father and son ride from Minnesota to California while Pirsig asks what quality is.

A runaway heiress and a reporter on a bus; the romantic comedy blueprint, and the first clean sweep of the big five.

Belmondo and Karina drive south in primary colours; Godard at his most alive.

Two bikers ride to New Orleans with Jack Nicholson in tow; the counterculture on film.