Picture is "The Grapes of Wrath," adapted by Nunnally Johnson from John Steinbeck's best-seller. It is an absorbing, tense melodrama, starkly realistic, and loaded with social and political fireworks.

Not long ago, my friend Michelle and I formed an informal two-person book club. We recognized that we both loved talking about the novels we were reading but had never quite fit into standard book ...

By Forrest Adams Vines that could produce the next great wine were reported stolen from the University of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum on Oct. 20. Carver County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy ...

"Grapes of Wrath'' cassettes: 1 (the Joads reach California, but Grandma dies crossing the desert; miles to go: 1,800 (approximate) ... STURGIS, S.D. -- I was in the Broken Spoke Saloon writing ...

Told in Steinbeck’s trademark empathic, colloquial, and observational style, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ is a story of strength, suffering, family, injustice, humanity, and hope in the face of ...