Newsweek INT. Breslin captured everyday life in New York City for decades, famed for a style that was 'equal parts Dickens and Yogi Berra.'

The Economist There is an immediacy about Charles Dickens's life, just as there is about his novels—a kind of bursting physicality. “If I couldn't walk fast and far,” he once said, “I think I should explode and perish”

The New Yorker “Fifty years was long enough, I suppose, to put off reading Charles Dickens again.”

The New Yorker “Fifty years was long enough, I suppose, to put off reading Charles Dickens again.”

The New Yorker “Fifty years was long enough, I suppose, to put off reading Charles Dickens again.”

Washington Post Style That pastime could hardly be more fun than this one.

The Economist Author Charles Dickens died on June 9th 1870. There is an immediacy about his life, just as there is about his novels—a kind of bursting physicality. “If I couldn't walk fast and far,” he once said, “I think I should explode and perish”

The Economist Writer Charles Dickens was born on this day in 1812. To mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, we tried to discover which of his novels sold best during his lifetime

NPR Tonight's record $1.5 billion Powerball drawing may seem like a modern phenomenon, but this frenzy is nothing new — just ask Charles Dickens, who bemusedly observed the Naples lottery 170 years ago.

The Economist How does Marlon James, winner of this year's Man Booker Prize, reconcile his love of Victorian novels with Charles Dickens's staunch imperialism and xenophobia?