They’re warm, cozy, friendly — sometimes a little edgy — and they’re everywhere. Pubs are a quintessential part of life in ...

The watch itself remains as refined as ever: a clean, Art Deco dial framed in pink gold, with just a small seconds dial to ...

When Lewis Cass High School produced the musical “Grease” in March 2025, directors Abby Guy and Joyce Bowers had stories to tell about the licensing experience. For instance, the license didn’t ...

One of the first jokes I picked when I moved to Ibadan 30 years ago is that failure of patronage is the only reason a drummer ...

Writer Molly Jong-Fast was born into a writing dynasty. She followed her parents’ footsteps, except for one thing.

Nestled in the embrace of the Pocono Mountains, where Victorian mansions perch on hillsides and the Lehigh River carves through a dramatic gorge, lies a town so picturesque it earned the nickname “The ...

Charles Dickens despised the Victorian legal system. In “ Bleak House ,” he invented the epic, decades-spanning Jarndyce v.

Charles Dickens' classic Christmas story has inspired dozens of filmed adaptations, but the first one is impossible to watch ...

Over the weekend, demonstrators in the Los Angeles area protesting President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration were ...

Tate Britain, LondonA Flemish ‘paintrix’ at the court of Elizabeth I, a magnificent mouth artist and a glamorous suffragette are finally given their due in a show tracing female artists’ rocky road to ...

Here’s something: Charles Dickens never mentions a London railway station by name in any of his 15 novels (nor in the other books I read). I think I’m the first person to discover this.

When his father was called to London again to be a clerk in the Naval Pay Office, the elder Dickens amassed so much debt that the entire family—except for Charles and his older sister Fanny ...