The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.

When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.

Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.