The Les Misérables Reading Companion

Another child atrophies in another kind of darkness.

We meet fan-favorite Gavroche and the gamin de Paris, the character type that he doesn't quite exemplify.

Les Misérables moonlights as a sort of macabre sitcom.

I try my hand at live commentary on the 2012 movie-musical adaptation of Les Misérables.

A few things are familiar in this strange new place.

We decipher Hugo's complex position on Jean Valjean's latest hideout.

We discuss Hugo's take on life inside his fictional convent.

Will our hero escape the clutches of the police? And what kind of strange place will his safe haven turn out to be?

Two kindred souls finally find each other.

We look more deeply into another of the novel's most famous scenes.