What is more praiseworthy than truth?
A question that resonates strongly today as we become accustomed to new tropes such as 'alternative facts'. Erasmus' masterpiece, first published...
Truth as birthright
In an age awash with fake news and propaganda, Bowen's penetratingly pithy comments stop you in your tracks (or me...
All the details of the tree
A fine injunction to a writer, first to face truth and then to give unhidden all the details. Neither is...
Made up and yet true
A piercing rationale for the arts, if a rationale is needed. They are made up, but ...
The window-dressers of power
While this comment refers to a specific poetry collection, I like it as a worthwhile goal for poetry, or come...
Doubt in an age of faith
Dante lived in an age where faith was the norm, at least in public, and doubt could land you in...
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 age of rumours
Why let facts get in the way of a good prejudice? When John Steinbeck and Robert Capa let people know...
Truer than …
Reading the book in Barcelona, this phrase resonated as I'd discovered the simple snack you can order alongside your drink...
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...
The hardest thing in the world
Curious that this comment by John Steinbeck so closely echoes a similar observation on the difficulty of...
Freedom fatigue
Many people long for and fight for one form or another of freedom.  Many others have it and take it...
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