Pencil and paper
Steinbeck wrote with pencil on the ubiquitous American yellow pad. Computers and word-processing came too late for him, and so...
This I do not know
One of the best books I read last year is The Russian Journal of John Steinbeck. He spent a month...
Cocktails in Kiev
Listening time: 2 minutes. On their travels to the Soviet Union in 1946, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa...
Missing homework
Here Steinbeck suffers a bout of exam nerves before being bombarded with highly intellectual questions from his counterparts in the...
A capacious book thief
Steinbeck and Robert Capa spent a month in the Soviet Union. It took some time for Steinbeck to cotton on...
Steinbeck on Capa
John Steinbeck was a good friend of the photographer Robert Capa, with whom he spent a month travelling in the...
Of centuries and cows
These quirky comments by Steinbeck charmed me - first his reaction to the first room he chose to work in,...
All languages, all accents
Steinbeck sums up the polyglot strengths and quirks of his friend Robert Capa with whom he spent a month in...
The claptrap of monarchy
According to the photographer Robert Capa, museums were the churches of the Soviet Union, where he spent a month in...
War wounds
Listening time: 4 minutes.
Among the warm-hearted and even funny accounts of people they met in the Soviet...
News then, and now?
John Steinbeck's analysis of the nature of news at the height of the Cold War resonates still, drawing attention to...
Three in one
Listening time: under 4 minutes. One of the finest pieces of prose I have read in a long...
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