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The Artful Dodger: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and all about the spin-off sequel series

The Artful Dodger on Hulu and Disney Plus sees Thomas Brodie-Sangster play Charles Dickens' iconic young thief as an adult with a double life.

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A Christmas Carol: this safe bet should still startle us – past, present or future

There may be comfort in the retelling of Dickens’ familiar tale, but the best adaptations show the imagination to still surprise

The Guardian - UK

Bologna seals off ‘leaning tower’ over fears it is tilting too far

Italian city’s mayor says square around 12th-century structure will shut for ‘a few years’ for repairs

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Hunt on for book containing Wilkie Collins’s criticism of friend Dickens

Collins’s notes on his collaborator’s ‘weakest book’ and ‘astonishingly bad’ work were sold at auction in 1890

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Triggered Literature by John Sutherland review – a cautious approach

The academic treads a little too carefully in his wry but passionless history of books deemed harmful to a reader’s state of mind

The Guardian - UK

Great Expectations: new theatrical adaptation sets Dickens novel in partition-era Bengal

We set eyes on Pip, the protagonist of Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel Great Expectations, for the first time in the churchyard where his parents and brothers are buried. The vision of the boy in front of the ruins of his family is one of rude survivalism. It’s a trait that…

The Conversation

A meat processer killed a 16-year-old. Yet US lawmakers want more child labor

Adult workers are demanding a fairer slice of corporate profits – so child labor is a way to increase and undercut the labor pool

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Slavery, illusion and dead white men: Zadie Smith's The Fraud explodes the historical novel

Victorian England loved a juicy scandal and Zadie Smith situates The Fraud in one of the mid-19th century’s most toothsome cause célèbres: the Tichborne case.

The Conversation

In Meeting With Elon Musk, Netanyahu Calls For End To Antisemitic Bot ‘armies’

The first leg of Israeli Prime Minister’s trip to the United States, where he will address the U.N. General Assembly]

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Stunning pop, Theater Camp and new Zadie Smith: Australia’s best things to watch, read and do this weekend

New films, shows, books and a seasonal recipe to spend your time with, selected by the culture and lifestyle desks

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Great Expectations review – Bengal in 1905 is tailor-made for Dickens

Tanika Gupta brings authority and nuance to her adaptation, exploring class, colonialism, partition and invasion – and finding unexpected resonance

The Guardian - UK

Keith Allen turns ‘self-absorbed hipster’ to play Scrooge at Christmas

The actor will play the part in the stage production at Alexandra Palace this winter

Evening Standard

The Fraud by Zadie Smith review – a trial and no errors

Inspired by an extraordinary court case, and featuring a real-life Victorian novelist, Smith’s funny, almost flawless new novel examines identity, the notion of truth and 19th-century England and Jamaica in flux

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Items from Charles Dickens’ childhood to be displayed to mark 200-year milestone

Charles Dickens’ fans will be able to see relics from his harsh childhood in an exhibition marking 200 years since he was put to work aged 11.

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‘Overrun with rats’: Charles Dickens Museum illuminates author’s factory stint

Dickens was taken out of school aged 11 to work in a London blacking factory as his father sank into debt

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Items from Charles Dickens’s childhood to be displayed to mark 200-year milestone

Dickens was just 11-years-old when he was forced to leave school in the autumn of 1823

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Items from Charles Dickens’ childhood to be displayed to mark 200-year milestone

Dickens was just 11-years-old when he was forced to leave school in the autumn of 1823.

Evening Standard

The Fraud by Zadie Smith review: a rich, inconsistent novel about a society in denial

ZADIE Smith has never set much store by consistency. “Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don’t, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work,” she once told this newspaper. “It’s not consistent. I am…

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A fake volcano, an ice-cream, a dog dressed as a shark: how I holidayed in the Aeolian Islands – without leaving Philadelphia

I’ve long dreamed of visiting these Italian islands. But who needs sea views and olive groves when you’ve got traffic-filled expressways and the Fairmount Water Works?

Evening Standard

Josh Barrie On the Sauce at the Lamb & Flag: One of the city’s best, but it takes a Dickens of a time to get served

It might be an old favourite, says Josh Barrie, but this pub needs to work on its service

Total Film

People think Timothee Chalamet's Wonka stole his look from a Muppet

It's remarkably similar to Gonzo's outfit in The Muppet Christmas Carol... remarkably

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An Internet User Called Out Timothée Chalamet’s Willy Wonka Look For Copying The Muppet Christmas Carol, And Now I Can’t Unsee It

I can't unsee the similarities after an internet user called out Timothée Chalamet for looking like a Muppet Christmas Carol character.

Total Film

There's already a perfect Haunted Mansion sequel story waiting to be adapted

OPINION | One version of the ride features a tragic tale that deserves to be seen on the big screen

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Farage affair is ‘a monumental PR disaster’ for exclusive bank Coutts

Private lender’s reputation is at risk after decision to cut ties with former Ukip leader and comments about him

Evening Standard

Simpson’s in the Strand: Owners hint of new project as famous carving trolleys and chandeliers auctioned off

Simpson’s in the Strand opened 200-years-ago and until now has remained something of a time capsule

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