Oliver is welcomed into the colourful and seductive world of Fagin and his gang. Oliver is welcomed into the colourful and seductive world of Fagin and his gang, and before long Dodger is teaching ...

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, ...