The claptrap of monarchy
According to the photographer Robert Capa, museums were the churches of the Soviet Union, where he spent a month in...
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...
Cocktails in Kiev
Listening time: 2 minutes. On their travels to the Soviet Union in 1946, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa...
Mail at last
We forget, swamped as we are with constant connectivity, the past hunger for letters and news when travelling. I remember...
When did you begin?
Recently I read an old penny-paperback of The Grapes of Wrath. Â I was about three-quarters of the way through when...
Steinbeck on Capa
John Steinbeck was a good friend of the photographer Robert Capa, with whom he spent a month travelling in the...
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...
Nervous as horses
A jumpy, unsettling opening to a powerful page that drives to the source of fury in Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath....
On cultural relations
John Steinbeck and Robert Capa wrestle with their status in seeking some Soviet organization which would be willing to adopt...
Of pens and pencils
Listening time: under 3 minutes. Â
This is a charming account of negotiating communist bureaucracy at the height of...
Lost in Russia
The American writer John Steinbeck and the photographer Robert Capa spent months preparing for their trip to the Soviet Union...
Nervous as horses before a thunderstorm
Steinbeck's alarming simile launches a powerful, gripping overview of societal and economic malaise, which resonates uncomfortably with much current public...
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