Fyodor Dostoyevski, read by Dick Hill, Tantor Media, unabridged, 19 CDs, 23.5 hrs., $45.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1603-4 Dostoyevski's classic novel of murder and guilt, featuring the conflicted killer ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

Philosopher, linguist, and literary critic Julia Kristeva’s short book on the writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky juxtaposes vignettes from her own past with observations about the writer who influenced her ...

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 ...

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“What is the last book you read that you remember reading and enjoying?” I ask students on the first day of the introductory litera­ture course I teach at a vocationally focused college. The class is ...

DUEL—Ronald Fangen—Viking ($2.50). When Feodor Dostoevsky died 53 years ago. a light went out of literature’s night sky that appears only once in a blue moon. Last week U. S. readers were rubbing ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky may not be a name known to all, but for the next four months he will be familiar to everyone who steps through the doors of the Main Library Gallery at the University of Iowa. “From ...

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 ...