Scholar of Charles Dickens who wrote a definitive biography and shone a light on the writer’s more neglected works ...

Charles Dickens trained many to hate capitalism, but he never understood the difference between envious hatred of wealth and ...

And a new biography of Dickens is getting prominent reviews, including front-page billing in The Washington Post Book World. But what’s been missing from the articles I’ve read about these works is ...

The cash-strapped Dickens crafted ‘A Christmas Carol’ in only six weeks in 1843, changing the holiday season forever.

This article originally published at CT Culture Corner: The story behind 'A Christmas Carol' and an angel at the Wadsworth.

Someone, somewhere, has spent years, perhaps their whole life, pulling a book together. The reader gets to spend weeks ...

Over the course of 2025, I’ve written quite a bit on changes in my life that I really didn’t notice. One of the most dramatic was how I somehow became a “morning lark” late in life after having been a ...

It will surprise absolutely no-one that the common themes among this year’s Summer Reading recommendations are artificial intelligence and geopolitical risk, with a sprinkling of re-industrialisation.

Literary critic, essayist and academic known for his erudite and pugnacious judgments on writers and his fellow dons ...

Christmas 2025 is just around the corner. As the excitement is building among fans, read on to know where to watch 10 Christmas films, which are inspired by real-life events and people.

All unjust claims to taxes, rents, and tribute … nullified … a self-yielding and abundant nature as well as a radically transformed human nature in which greed, envy, and hatred will disappear.” ...

Dickens works such as the Christmas stories were regularly turned into stage plays during his life, while today most people ...