My son Tobias Wilson-Bates on the power of Dickens’s “Christmas Carol” and how Dickens reinvented Christmas.
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The Power of Dickens’s Christmas Carol
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My Favorite Christmas Story as a Child
“Why the Chimes Rang,” my favorite Christmas story as a child, tells what it takes for us to hear our inner chimes.
The Quest of the Marvelous Tree
In “Quest of the Marvelous Tree,” Scott Bates captures the magic of Christmas.
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Epstein as Humbert Humbert
Pedophile Epstein charmed people, blinding them to evident pedophilia. So does Humbert Humbert in Nabokov’s “Lolita.”
Winter Solstice and Christmas
A winter solstice poem by Susan Cooper.
Bringing Up Baby—in Grad School
In which I remember balancing grad school and a new baby.
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Why Emma Is My Favorite Austen Novel
Why “Emma” is my favorite Austen novel. It all has to do with Mrs. Elton, Emma’s double.
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Rob Reiner’s 18th Century Sensibility
In which I honor Rob Reiner by looking back at “Princess Bride” and how I used it to teach Henry Fielding’s “Tom Jones.”
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