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Michael Rosen

Comrades in art

As young Communists in 1950s Britain, Soviet children’s literature transformed our world view.

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Michael Rosen: Everything, all human life, is history

To live with this paradox of history, being on the one hand “gone” yet at the same time being…

By Michael Rosen

Everything is history

All history is pointless. You can’t change it. It’s over. It happened. Yet we’ve all got history. Even the…

By Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen: Confessions of an accidental communist

The author on his childhood, his parents' life in the East End and where he parted from Christopher Hitchens…

By Michael Rosen

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