This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881). The Russian literary giant was a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. According to Dostoevsky, an essential part of leading an authentic life involves avoiding ...

Fashions of literary criticism seem to have a half-life of about ten years. Interestingly enough, through all the changes of schools and approaches, the biography of writers has continued to compel an ...

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 ...

A scholar concludes almost 50 years of biographical research with a final volume that reveals the novelist’s dark side Later this month, when Princeton University Press publishes the fifth volume of ...

Everything was silent in St. Petersburg's Semenovsky Square. On the cold December day in 1849, the snow fell softly on the soldiers, on the crowd and on the ragged prisoners who unexpectedly found ...