LOCKS GALLERY In a long horizontal line extending through the gallery, the faces of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century artistic and intellectual avant-garde - Arthur Rimbaud, Antonin Artaud, Oscar Wilde, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Duchamp, Alfred Jarry - stared out at the contemporary visitor....

Over by the fireplace in the Tombs, a rathskeller just outside the gates of Georgetown University, there's a brass plaque on a long, long table. It reads, "The Chimes." And up on the wall hang 16 pewter mugs. You may have been there...

It has chimed through freezing winters, fierce storms and World War II bombing raids. But old age will silence Big Ben's bongs _ at least temporarily.The famed bell that sounds the hour at Britain's Houses of Parliament is to fall silent during scheduled repairs for...

Sunday, July 29, 2007 in Brooklyn — The ruins of abandoned McCarren Park Pool should have been packed for TV on the Radio, one of the biggest names on its free, Sunday afternoon indie rock concert series. But a chilly, dismal drizzle kept the Olympic-sized...

In the excerpt below, the anonymous critic discusses Dickens's exposure of the plight of the poor in The Chimes.