Tag Archives: Charles Dickens

Fani Willis’s Big Baggy Monster

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.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2022

Dickens didn’t so much invent Christmas–or even reinvent it–as supercharge it. “A Christmas Carol” was key in the endeavor.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 19, 2022

Coal miner owners have been leaving behind messes for others to clean up. Dickens reports something similar in “Hard Times.”

By Robin Bates | Published: August 17, 2022

Going through my mother’s possessions is like a trip into Krook’s Rag and Bone shop in “Bleak House.”

By Robin Bates | Published: August 7, 2022

In “Rules of Civility,” Towles compares reading Dickens to that first cup of morning coffee.

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By Robin Bates | Published: July 27, 2022

People want refugees and the homeless to be out of sight, out of mind. Like society with Jo in “Bleak House.”

By Robin Bates | Published: July 24, 2022

Dickens’s Skimpole reminds one of Trump in the way he leeches off other people and always avoid’s responsibility.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 10, 2022

Twitter’s case against Musk is headed for Chancery Court, bringing up memories of Dickens’s “Bleak House.”