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 ...

A statement by Raskolnikov at the conclusion of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” dramatically illustrates features of the criminal mind. The infallible criminal looks at himself and sees his ...

Few people consumed these stories more voraciously than novelist (and ex-convict) Fyodor Dostoevsky. In September 1865, he was staying in the German spa town and gambling resort of Wiesbaden, where he ...

The old woman who once sliced our front garden hose with a knife has just walked past our home without pausing. Not long ...

Russian literature majors will tell you that Dostoevsky was a laugh riot. Well, probably not. That didn’t stop Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen from having fun with the literary great’s 1866 novel ...

A “tip of the kippah” this week to Fyodor Dostoevsky, patron saint of tortured souls and men who overthink everything except their own violence. His masterpiece, Crime and Punishment, begins with a ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky is a man who understood the power of duality, of the innate good and bad in all of humankind, and a large part of his legacy is on display at the University of Iowa’s Main Library in ...

Although he was born 200 years ago, in a world that should be foreign to me, Dostoevsky formed my way of seeing the world more than almost any other person has. As a college student, I read Notes From ...

In his excellent new memoir, Never Say You Had a Lucky Life (review coming soon), Joseph Epstein writes of a Harvard economics professor by the name of Alexander Gerschenkron who claimed to have read ...

A statement by Raskolnikov at the conclusion of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” dramatically illustrates features of the criminal mind. The infallible criminal looks at himself and sees his ...