The Idiot
The Idiot Redux
Elif Batuman takes the title of her first novel, The Idiot, from a Dostoevsky classic. […]
Our Grieving Hearts and the “Great Impertinence of Beauty” (Or, Can Beauty Save the World?), Pt 2
This is the second part of my reflection on beauty. Check out part one here. […]
Keeping a Reckoning in Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot
A short passage from the master in which Prince Myshkin recalls the story of an […]
Goodness Kills Love
At all events when, after many hours, the door was opened and people thronged in, […]








