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Sometimes, there are second chances in literature. Charles Dickens' Fagin, the central scoundrel in his 1838 novel "Oliver Twist," leads a crime ring that exploits hungry orphans to rob unsuspecting ...

When The Artful Dodger, the new Oliver Twist sequel series on Hulu, first released publicity stills, two of them showed the story’s villain, Fagin, inside a church with a cross hanging from his neck.

A two-part, three-hour, miniseries production of the Charles Dickens classic "Oliver Twist" that appeared on PBS's "Masterpiece Classic" on Feb. 15 and 22 produced some sharply critical comments from ...

What do you do with a problem like Fagin, the petty-thief ringleader and most indelible character in Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist” — and one of the most vicious antisemitic stereotypes ever ...

Charles Dickens' beloved orphan makes his Goodspeed debut in the hope-filled musical set in the dark shadows of Victorian London. Bounced from workhouse to forced labor, Oliver Twist escapes to the ...

Reading Charles Dickens is usually an unalloyed pleasure; there is probably not another writer in English as entertaining. But reading “Oliver Twist,” you’re forced to contend with Fagin, the leader ...

Thomas Brodie-Sangster plays Oliver Twist's former pickpocketing pal in a series featuring David Thewlis as the scheming Fagin. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic When readers last spotted the ...

In both Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Allison Epstein’s novel, Fagin the Thief, the word “Jew” appears more than 300 times. But there’s a big difference in how the authors use the word. In Dickens ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." Sometimes, ...