My son Tobias Wilson-Bates on the power of Dickens’s “Christmas Carol” and how Dickens reinvented Christmas.
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Tag Archives: Charles Dickens
The Power of Dickens’s Christmas Carol
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DJT Goes Gatsby but Think Dickens
Trump’s weekend Gatsby-style party brings to mind another novel: Dickens’s “Tale of Two Cities.”
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DoJ’s Dickensian Assault on Justice
The Justice Department’s case against Comey brings to mind the Jarndyce case in “Bleak House.” Both have the effect of sapping time, money, energy and the will to live.
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Read for Fun, Not for the Test
Constant testing is sapping the joy out of reading. It’s also counterproductive as readers learn the most when they find reading fun.
Anti-Vaxxers, Today’s Modest Proposers
Satirist Alexandra Petri channels Dickens and Swift as she goes after Florida for not backing away from childhood vaccines.
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Thoughts on Teaching as School Begins
The despairing teacher in this Vernon Scannell poems needs to focus on his students, not on himself.
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No, A.I. Will Not Change How We Read Lit
Will A.I. change how people read lit, as this New Yorker article claims? Uh, no.
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