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Dostoevsky
December 28, 2021
MagazineJennifer Wilson
Dostoevsky’s Favorite Murder
The author of “Crime and Punishment” had a love-hate relationship with the true-crime obsessions of his era.
August 23, 2016
Ani Kokobobo
Election Demons
Dostoevsky's most political novel mirrors Trump's America.
October 9, 2015
Sophie Pinkham
Svetlana Alexievich, The Dostoevsky of Nonfiction
The Nobel Prizewinner’s compassionate oral histories resist Cold War narratives
November 11, 2014
Rebecca West
Is God Russian? Dostoevsky Thought So.
February 23, 2010
Saul Bellow
The French As Dostoevsky Saw Them
March 25, 2002
Claire Messud
The Liar's Tale
March 25, 2002
Claire Messud
The Liar's Tale

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