Tag Archives: Charles Dickens

Responding to the Verdict: Trump & Fagin

By Robin Bates | Published: May 30, 2024

How did Trump feel as the verdict was delivered? Perhaps like Fagin in “Oliver Twist.”

By Robin Bates | Published: April 14, 2024

Edgar A. Guest has a fun poem in favor of taxes. And Dickens unloads on those with money who avoid paying them.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 27, 2023

Certain GOP pols are behaving like Dickens villains when it comes to the poor.

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By Robin Bates | Published: December 20, 2023

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” pits paganism’s Winter Solstice against Christmas. But reconciliation is possible.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 5, 2023

Min Jin Lee’s “Pachinko” has a scene that goes to the heart of literature teaching.

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By Robin Bates | Published: September 19, 2023

Maureen Corrigan says the social awareness novel is thriving and gives reasons.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 4, 2023

The opening lines of “Tale of Two Cities” capture our reality only too well.

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By Robin Bates | Published: August 15, 2023

The Georgia Trump indictment is like a “big baggy monster” whereas Jack Smith’s narrower indictment is like a Flaubert novel.

By Robin Bates | Published: March 21, 2023

Some in the GOP want to bring back child labor. Kingsolver, Dickens and Browning weigh in on the subject.