Thursday Tim Parks has written a provocative essay for The New York Review of Books, asking, Is literature wise? In the sense, does it help us to live? And if not, what exactly is it good for? If you follow this blog, you already know my answers: –Yes, literature is wiser than we are (and […]
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What Lit Is Good For–A Debate
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The Return of Debtor Imprisonment?!
The fleecing by authorities of the Ferguson Black community, including imprisonment for debt, puts one in mind of Charles Dickens’ “Little Dorrit.”
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Dickens Understood Resentment Well
When resentment threatens to hijack our politics, we would do well to turn to Dickens’ “Little Dorrit.”
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Dickens & Our Irresponsible Financiers
“Little Dorrit” is a timely novel about a society plunged into ruin by the shenanigans of financial “wizards.”
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Count to Five-and-Twenty, Tattycoram
Working with my grandson’s during a meltdown brought to mind the strategy used to calm Tattycoram in “Little Dorrit.”
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