On ‘Bleak House’ and Equally Bleak Institutions

On ‘Bleak House’ and Equally Bleak Institutions

There are two types of people in the world: those who organize libraries and those who do not. I am of the latter group. Forever doomed with an incurable affliction to accumulate crisp bound pages attached to busted spines without a system to categorize any of them. I...

Caring for the Poor: It’s Not Just for Christmas

Charles Dickens was an English social critic and writer who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era (1837-1901) in Great Britain. He was born 200 years ago in 1812 and is the author of such highly acclaimed novels as “The Adventures...