If you celebrate Christmas, chances are you've adapted some traditions that were popularized in the mid-1800s by one author: Charles Dickens. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, it's hard to ...

In a show that loves to give supernatural twists to well-known historical figures, this choice speaks to Dickens’ longstanding grip on the popular imagination, from his own time to the present.

In his later years Charles Dickens was almost as famous a reader as he was a writer. What he read were his own works, aloud, before huge, rapturous, often hysterical audiences in England ...