"Fool and scoundrel guide the State." That's true enough. In the early 1930's when this was written speeding traffic on…
Stalin’s Heirs by Yevgeny Yevtushenko Mute was the marble. Mutely glimmered the glass. Mute stood the sentries, bronzed by the…
If you went to school in the UK anytime in the last sixty years then you will probably be familiar…
Muriel Rukeyser wrote this in 1968. Read it and tell me it doesn't feel like she is writing for this…
What an intriguing idea: Reversing time to see your younger self moving forward in time as you move backward. What…
Thaw by Edward Thomas Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw…
Not a very effective way to get children to love school and enjoy math. But looks like it was an…
There's a comfort in routines and familiar sounds. Some towns have a noon whistle. If you've lived near a school…
Wood On The Downs After Paul Nash by Martin Malone We have been here before. Uffington, Hackpen, Grim’s Ditch,…
How will artists and writers portray this Trumpian time of disillusion, delusion and deception in which we now live? All…