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 ...

Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Vintage, $14). “Until now English-speaking readers have not had the opportunity to take full stock of ...

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 ...

What unites the debates over Ukraine and Israel is not geography but a growing global appetite for peace without ...

In the classic Fyodor Dostoevsky novel Crime and Punishment, Rodion Romanych Raskolnikov commits the murders that shape the book in the midst of a sweltering St. Petersburg summer. In the words of ...

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 ...

There’s an assumption in certain artistic circles that when the theaters reopen, audiences are going to want to be uplifted. Light comedy, soothing song, maybe a tear or two of reconciliation, but ...

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 ...

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 ...