Books Miss Havisham: A History by Carrie Frye · June 30, 2016 Carrie Frye on Miss Havisham, one of Dickens's most memorable characters, who presides over Great Expectations "like a great, ill-willed fairy queen."
Books “Yet I’ll Speak”: Othello’s Emilia, A Rebuke to Female Silence by Caitlin Keefe Moran · April 13, 2016 Caitlin Keefe Moran on the defiant Emilia, who "even in the face of brutality . . . is a rebuke to the idea of female silence."
Books Classic Characters You May Not Remember From Children’s Literature by Mallory Ortberg · January 25, 2016 Let them back into your brain!
Books “The Real Mr. Darcy”: A Literary Pilgrimage to the Jane Austen Centre by Constance Grady · January 7, 2016 Constance Grady on the Jane Austen Centre and the Mr Darcy myth: "Popular culture has replaced Austen’s rude and awkward nerd with a dashing romantic hero."
Books Literary Characters I Would Not Invite to a Dinner Party by Kathryn Ionata · April 2, 2014 Kathryn Ionata describes the worst possible literary dinner party a person could throw.