Compiled by Rita Gray, illus. by Ryan O'Rourke, Charlesbridge, $9.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-57091-716-5 This playful group of 20 rain-themed poems includes the works of Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg ...

John Gray is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman. His latest book is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (Allen Lane). The Italian writer was drawn to fascism – but became ...