As humourless as …
A curious yet convincing simile for lacking humour, by the great metaphorist John Steinbeck. What would come to your mind...
Lost in Russia
The American writer John Steinbeck and the photographer Robert Capa spent months preparing for their trip to the Soviet Union...
Nail a rumour and pin down a fact
Steinbeck appears to have anticipated the age of fake news. This is particularly pertinent as we try to tease out...
The claptrap of monarchy
According to the photographer Robert Capa, museums were the churches of the Soviet Union, where he spent a month in...
Three in one
Listening time: under 4 minutes. One of the finest pieces of prose I have read in a long...
Missing homework
Here Steinbeck suffers a bout of exam nerves before being bombarded with highly intellectual questions from his counterparts in the...
Cocktails in Kiev
Listening time: 2 minutes. On their travels to the Soviet Union in 1946, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa...
War in all its gory
Steinbeck met a number of people in the Soviet Union who had survived the worst depredations of the Second World...
Too much of a good thing
When Steinbeck and Robert Capa found themselves stranded at an airport in the Soviet Union, they were offered copious quantities...
Writing on wheels
Another in a series of accounts by John Steinbeck's wife, Elaine, of his perpetual search for the perfect writing space....
One month or five years
Although I can't vouch for its accuracy, I liked this neat formula for deciding how long to spend getting to...
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