Charles Dickens’s Fagin gets rehabilitated, again
Allison Epstein’s “Fagin the Thief” is the latest work to reimagine a famously offensive character from “Oliver Twist” ...
The Forward on MSN17d
In an ‘Oliver Twist’ prequel, Fagin gets a first name — and the spotlight
In both Charles Dickens’s 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 ...