Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of Russia’s greatest literary minds, explored the deepest corners of human emotion, morality, and existence. His works delve into the struggles between faith and doubt, sin and ...
Although he was born 200 years ago, in a world that should be foreign to me, Dostoevsky formed my way of seeing the world more than almost any other person has. As a college student, I read Notes From ...
A review of Dostoevsky: the mantle of the prophet, 1870-1881 by Joseph Frank. Fashions of literary criticism seem to have a half-life of about ten years. Interestingly enough, through all the changes ...
A scholar concludes almost 50 years of biographical research with a final volume that reveals the novelist’s dark side Later this month, when Princeton University Press publishes the fifth volume of ...
Burdened by gambling debts so onerous he feared imprisonment (again), suffering debilitating epileptic seizures and reeling from the deaths of his wife and his brother, Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1865 began ...
‘At different times,” writes Alex Christofi in this innovative biography, “all ends of the political spectrum ... allowed themselves to believe that he spoke for them.” Such was the capacious mind and ...
The CDC reports that 40 percent of Gen Z feel persistently sad, and doom-scrolling has been linked to clinical pathology, ...
On Nov. 11, 1821, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow. And exactly 101 years later, 5,000 miles away, Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis. Though separated by a century and an ocean, the two ...
It’s been said about Bernard Madoff that he wanted to be caught. That knowledge of the extent of his crimes was its own burden, one relieved by those same crimes being exposed. It was impossible not ...