Barbara Ellen: Fay Weldon's call for women to stop nagging men about picking up their socks is an example of yet another feminist going soft in later life
Chris McGreal follows in the path of the Joads, John Steinbeck's fictional family in The Grapes of Wrath who fled to California amid the Great Depression
Chris McGreal begins his recreation of John Steinbeck's fictional journey along Route 66 to see how, and whether, life has changed for modern-day Americans