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Charles Dickens
Olivia Colman on playing her latest mother monster: "My little girl wouldn't cuddle me."
By
Janet Manley
| March 20, 2023
The Wizardry of Boz: A Brief History of Charles Dickens on Screen
The New
Great Expectations
Series Has Big Shoes to Fill (About 400 Pairs of Them)
By
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
| March 17, 2023
If you quote a Dickens character in a piece on weight loss drugs, don’t pick one who starves kids?
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| February 27, 2023
Great turnip literature to devour during the British vegetable shortage.
By
Janet Manley
| February 24, 2023
Bill McKibben on the Joys of Writing a Serialized Novel
Why Weekly Installments Can Make For the Best Kind of Storytelling
By
Bill McKibben
| January 4, 2023
Why I Had to Get Older to Write About Youth
Allegra Goodman on Finding the Necessary Distance to Write up Close
By
Allegra Goodman
| January 4, 2023
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Charles Dickens partied HARD after finishing
A Christmas Carol
in just six weeks.
By
Jonny Diamond
| December 19, 2022
What’s
The Crown
Without a Living Queen Elizabeth II?
By
Matthew Redmond
| November 7, 2022
When Journalists Turn to Fiction: A Reading List
By
Katie Hafner
| July 28, 2022
Charles Dickens was an amateur magician who often performed at his friends' kids' birthday parties.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| April 5, 2022
How Writing a Serialized Novel Helped Carley Moore Connect With the World During a Time of Disconnection
“In an environment that felt unstructured and constantly in flux serialization allowed me to be flexible.”
By
Carley Moore
| April 1, 2022
You can relax now: Charles Dickens is no longer shadowbanned on TikTok.
By
Walker Caplan
| March 25, 2022
Has the real-life inspiration for Miss Havisham been uncovered?
By
Walker Caplan
| March 3, 2022
Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation
“Even in photographs it looked as if his soul had been ‘pumped out of him.’’
By
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
| March 1, 2022
Olivia Colman is our new Miss Havisham.
By
Eliza Smith
| February 18, 2022
“I do not think it is a good story.” Never ask Charles Dickens for writing advice.
By
Walker Caplan
| February 7, 2022
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The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"