What’s so fresh about ‘fresh hell?’
It may most often be used now as an echo of Parker
Charles dickens
Tuesday
Wednesday
A Charles Dickens patchwork
A night walk through the world of an author haunted by humanity
Tuesday
The new foul-mouthed Great Expectations is as bad as you’d expect
Amid the spanking and mud and tedium, its impact is all but lost
Thursday
The link between spick and span, spanking and spoon
Whatever spick and span reminds us of, it is as an idiom with a cheery meaning of its own
Friday
The similarity between Charles Dickens and Armando Iannucci
The director’s new work, The Personal History of David Copperfield, is certainly brave
Friday
The wisdom of Salman
Rushdie on fathers, fictions and fatwas
Tuesday
The way we read now
The thrill is gone for lovers of fiction. Joseph Bottum on the strange death of the novel
Wednesday
The Dems take a swig from The Pickwick Papers
Compare the anodyne narrative of the transcript to the mad impeachment hysteria that has addled the brains of the anti-Trump sorority in the Democratic party
