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Michael Slater’s new biography, Charles Dickens , is subtitled A Life Defined by Writing . It’s a bit clumsy, perhaps, but certainly apt. With The Pickwick Papers , Charles...

“I hold my imaginative capacity,” Charles Dickens once wrote, “on the stern condition that it must master my own life, often have complete possession of me, make its own...

Tomorrow, October 12, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged . It was a huge, hotly debated bestseller in its day, and its...

In the elementary schools of the American Midwest, Abraham Lincoln has always enjoyed a good press. Schoolchildren in northern Indiana, I can attest, marked Lincoln’s birthday by drawing crayon...

The Anti-Egotist: Kingley Amis, Man of Letters by paul fussell oxford university press, 206 pages, $23 Kingsley Amis is hard to beat at darts. His 1991 Memoirs, for example,...