The battle lines in the supposed war between reason and tradition, science and faith, in the 18th and 19th centuries are a fitting entry point into the life and work of Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Russian ...

Harvard University professor James Wood lectured on Fyodor Dostoevsky Wednesday night, an event that drew such a large turnout that it was moved from the George Sherman Union’s Terrace Lounge into the ...

This is the fifth and eagerly-awaited final volume of a work that began 50 years ago. It is far more than a life of a writer. Joseph Frank positions Fyodor Dostoevsky at the epicentre of a cultural ...

Guest Lecture by Dr. Melissa Frazier, Prof. and Assoc. Dean, Sarah Lawrence College Thursday, Dec. 7, 3:30-4:45 p.m. HLMS 211 All are welcome! Light refreshments will be served. Please contact jillian ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky lived a life that mirrored his novels: complicated, tense and full of psychological unrest. He was as dedicated to the women that accompanied him on this difficult journey as he was ...

“If Dostoevsky were around today,” literary scholar Gary Saul Morson mused, “he would have been at the trial of the Menendez brothers.” That wry comment juxtaposing the Russian novelist and the ...

In the mid-1950s, the young critic Joseph Frank, having been invited to give the Christian Gauss lectures at Princeton, settled on the then fashionable topic "Existential Themes in Modern Literature." ...