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John Steinbeck considered 'East of Eden' his definitive masterpiece. Pencil-written journal entries reveal why this personal epic was the "only book" he felt he ever wrote.
Thirty-two short chapters about a run-down street in Monterey, held together by almost no plot at all: two attempts to throw a party for a man who has never asked for anything. Ste...
John Steinbeck’s hometown of Salinas is the least affordable city in the US for the middle class, a recent Brookings Institution analysis found Nestled between two mountain ranges...
Two Party organisers walk into an apple-picking valley and start a strike they intend to lose usefully. Steinbeck's coldest novel refuses to say whether they are right, and ends mi...
His last book, a nine-chapter argument about what Americans actually are, now published inside a 430-page omnibus of thirty years of journalism. One chapter is among the best thing...
Twelve stories from the Salinas Valley, nearly all of them written in a single year in his parents' dining room while his mother lay dying in the next room. It contains the best sh...
Steinbeck's last novel follows a grocery clerk from a once-grand family who decides, over a single summer, to get his position back. He succeeds. The interest is entirely in what h...
Twelve linked stories about a Californian valley so fertile a Spanish soldier named it after heaven, and one family whose arrival quietly destroys every neighbour they are kind to....
Steinbeck's first commercial success takes a handful of unemployed men in the hills above Monterey and runs them through the structure of Arthurian romance, chapter headings and al...
A battered rural bus leaves a crossroads lunchroom with nine passengers and a driver who is planning to abandon all of them. Steinbeck's 1947 novel sold a million copies before pub...
Four linked stories about a ten-year-old boy on a Salinas Valley ranch, each one teaching him something nobody intended to teach. Frequently handed to children, and one of the leas...
In 1947 Steinbeck and the photographer Robert Capa spent forty days in the Soviet Union with a rule they imposed on themselves: report only what they saw, and draw no conclusions....
A fifty-eight-year-old novelist drives ten thousand miles around America with a French-speaking poodle and reports what he finds. Much of it did not happen, which Penguin now says...
A Welsh farm boy runs away to the Caribbean, becomes the most feared buccaneer alive, sacks Panama to find a woman he has only heard rumours of, and gets her. Steinbeck's first nov...
An unnamed country is occupied by an unnamed army in forty-five minutes, and the town takes a year to make the occupiers wish they had never come. Written as wartime propaganda, at...
Thirty chapters, and every other one has no Joads in it. The alternation is the most radical thing about Steinbeck's 1939 novel and the thing most readers skip. This analysis takes...
A sequel in which the sardines are gone, the canneries are silent, and Doc cannot work out what is wrong with him. It opens with a character from the previous book complaining abou...
A Vermont farmer takes up land in a California valley and comes to believe his dead father lives in an oak tree. Steinbeck's third novel took him five years and is the strangest th...
Four characters, one story, and three completely different settings between which they change occupation without explanation. Steinbeck's third and last play-novelette closed on Br...
Steinbeck built it to be performed from the page without adaptation, and the engineering shows. This analysis works through the circular frame, the three-day clock, and the chain o...
Steinbeck called it the book he had been practising for all his life. This analysis works through its architecture: a double retelling of Genesis 4, two families braided across six...
Each morning before working on the book 'East of Eden,' John Steinbeck set down to write a letter.
"I can’t consider you a friend when out of every contact there comes some intentionally wounding thing."
We're tackling Steinbeck's EAST OF EDEN just in time for the Netflix adaptation release this Thursday, October 1.
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