Birmingham sketches out Russia’s mid-century byzantine chaos with a deft hand, up to the point in 1849 when Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for associating with the Petrashevsky Circle ...

Dostoevsky's The Gambler offers psychological ... all this work and wealth amounts to a system of self-enslavement. He sketches a cross-generational drama in which the eldest son inherits the ...

Dostoevsky was the only 19th-century Russian writer to be sentenced to hard labor, spending four years in a Siberian camp. As fortune – or misfortune – would have it, when the exhausted ...

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 ...

Birmingham's latest book, The Sinner and The Saint, gives the same treatment to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. These are not new subjects; but Birmingham writes the kind of deeply researched ...

It was impossible not to think of Madoff while reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s very sad, frequently insightful, and ultimately unputdownable classic, Crime and Punishment. Early on in what from now ...

Saturday, Nov. 11, is the birthday of Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of Russia’s greatest novelists. The author of such classics as “The Brothers Karamazov,” “The Idiot,” and “Crime and ...