Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic is more than a book, more than a story, more than a novel—it is a poignant and thought-provoking study of pure, unadulterated goodness in a world completely unprepared to ...

Translated by Mehri Ahi, the first edition of the Persian translation was published in 2016. “The Idiot” is a profound novel centered around Prince Myshkin, a young man in his mid-twenties who ...

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, justly acclaimed for their translations of such Russian classics as Gogol's Dead Souls and Dostoyevski's The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment and Notes ...

For three years, the writer Laurie Sheck suffered from an undiagnosed illness, an agonizing facial pain that put normal life out of reach. She sought medical attention, but the doctors couldn’t seem ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Picture Dostoevsky in 1867. With his bride, Anna Grigorievna, he resided abroad, not for pleasure but to ...