Fyodor Dostoevsky

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God Orchestrated My Salvation through Two Books: Crime and Punishment and the Gospel of Luke

When Books and Music Console Us in Insolation

1. Some fascinating links for your perusal this week, first of which is this, from […]

Grateful for this incredible piece by Nate Mills: When I was 3 or 4 I […]

Elif Batuman takes the title of her first novel, The Idiot, from a Dostoevsky classic. […]

1. What happens when you combine an unshakeable superiority complex with deep insecurity? Probably a nervous […]

This morning’s Hopelessly comes from the one and only Bryan Jarrell. Then they burned the […]

“To think that human beings are freedom-loving, you have to be ready to view nearly […]

From his Notes from Underground, in which the great Russian author’s disturbed protagonist questions ideals […]

More thoughts from the late Jaroslav Pelikan, taken from the “Dostoevsky: The Holy and the […]