In the new FX adaptation, Dickens’s England is crass, vulgar—and thoroughly tainted by Empire.

In his 1854 book “Hard Times,” the great British novelist satirized the utilitarian underpinnings of the Effective Altruist movement.

The former Texas senator also thinks the rich pay way too much in taxes. No word yet on debtor’s prison.

Readers have long bickered over what actually ails Dickens’s famous Christmas tyke, but there’s no argument about how we can help children like him.

Most of the big tech attempts to “disrupt” the book have failed.

Recent adaptations of the Dickens and Austen novels teach us how to foster joy in a time of fear and contagion.

Hot buttered rum—and homelessness—this holiday season

Moderate liberals and conservatives complain about the contemporary focus on suffering. But such activism is central to American democracy.

The protagonist of Akwaeke Emezi's autofiction is a font of different voices, some of whom hail from the spirit world.

When we assess the reputation of a great man, can we still prioritize the work over the life?

Money taints everything, why not writing too?

Jonathan Franzen’s reckoning with his literary inheritance

Images of the squalor and sadness of Victorian life

It was the best of lines, it was the worst of lines

Salinger isn't the only one

This twenty-first century Henry James update is too cute by half.