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As a teenager, the novelist Joshua Cohen loved Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella The Double for its eerie conceit, in which a man encounters a stranger who looks exactly like himself. But Cohen returns to ...
A SPOTLIGHT SEARCHES the dark stage of the Maly Drama Theatre in St Petersburg. It picks out a young man in a monk’s robe sitting on a chair, a suitcase on his lap. He rises, changes into secular ...
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 ...
A former archbishop of Canterbury on reclaiming the human world through compassion and absolution. By Peter Wehner The Russian novelist, a compulsive gambler, lost everything in the opulent spa and ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Jennifer Wilson THE GAMBLER WIFE A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky ...
FORTY YEARS ago, in the autumn of 1979, a group of British explorers set out from London on a seemingly impossible mission: a circumpolar navigation of the Earth. Over the three years of what was ...
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