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The King of Kings review – Charles Dickens retelling of the Jesus story does a serviceable job

The famous author tells his son and their cat the story of Jesus in this mixed-bag family animation, voiced by an impressive cast

This syrupy cartoon account of the life of Jesus (voiced by Oscar Isa…

34 days ago

‘Expressing your pain in artistic form is not easy’: exiled Russian theatre director builds bridges in London

Dmitry Krymov, who fled Moscow after the Ukraine invasion, plans Dickens hybrid with UK and Russian actors

The acclaimed Russian stage director Dmitry Krymov the winner of many of Moscow’s top theatre…

62 days ago

‘He contains the whole of literature’: is Dickens better than Shakespeare?

After rereading the entire works of the great Victorian novelist during the pandemic, Peter Conrad became convinced – whisper it – that Dickens is an even greater writer than that other British liter…

64 days ago

84 days ago

Andrew O’Hagan: ‘A kind of Dickens and Zola energy was pulsing’

The author and journalist on ‘modern London corruption’ and his Orwell prize-shortlisted novel Caledonian Road, how he helped Jonathan Franzen and the last book he gave as a gift

Journalist, novelist …

3 months ago

Niall Williams: ‘When I first read Chekhov, I thought: “He’s not so great”’

The Irish author on Enid Blyton at bedtimes, discovering Dickens, and the brilliance of Edna O’Brien

My earliest reading memory
I am sitting at the kitchen table at home in Dublin. I am home from sch…

When in Rome … go where the Romans go, not the tourist crowds

The Eternal City’s monuments and museums are busy at the best of times, but there remain myriad treasures to explore that are well off the beaten track

One of the earliest European printed books was …

4 months ago

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