Stewart ranted about the government shutdown cutting off funds for 42 million Americans on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — costing around $8.3 billion per month — while ...
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...
Reading Charles Dickens is usually an unalloyed pleasure; there is probably not another writer in English as entertaining. But reading “Oliver Twist,” you’re forced to contend with Fagin, the leader ...
Geanna Kirchner as Nancy, left, and Caleb Bitner as Bill Sikes are shown in a scene ahead of their performances at the Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre. Courtesy of Angel Berlane Mulcahy, On My Cue ...
In both Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Allison Epstein’s novel, Fagin the Thief, the word “Jew” appears more than 300 times. But there’s a big difference in how the authors use the word. In Dickens ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." CapRadio ...
Sometimes, there are second chances in literature. Charles Dickens' Fagin, the central scoundrel in his 1838 novel "Oliver Twist," leads a crime ring that exploits hungry orphans to rob unsuspecting ...
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