Category: Hard Times

  • Useless things

    Mitchell Kalpakgian has an excellent piece about Hard Times in Crisis magazine. Here's a short excerpt: "Dickens illustrates that…

  • The Gradgrindian vision

    John Mark Reynolds (whom I know personally) has an interesting blog post up about how Dickens…

  • The Case of the Invisible Detective: Amateur female sleuths in ‘Hard Times’

    When people talk about early detective novels, and Dickens's influence on the genre, they usually tend…

  • Statistics

    Msantimacassar requested a quote from Hard Times. “‘Then Mr M’Choakumchild said he would try me once more.…

  • Fellowship matters

    Congratulations to the Dickens Society of Baltimore for becoming an official branch of the Dickens Fellowship!…

  • Dickens and data

    At Re/Code, Irina Raicu looks at Dickens's exploration of "life regulated and shaped by data and…

  • ‘Hard Times’ wrap-up

    In brief — this was a fairly good adaptation, all told. The cast, with a few…

  • ‘Hard Times,’ part four

    And we're into the home stretch. Nice little monologue in a mirror for Richard E. Grant.…

  • ‘Hard Times,’ part three

    Only had time to watch a little bit tonight, but I wanted to keep the momentum…

  • ‘Hard Times,’ part two

    The sets for this movie are sparse, but effective. You see Stephen walking past a never-ending…