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It is easy to generalize about the main characters in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov.” Alyosha, the youngest, is gentle and faithful. Ivan, the middle one, is brilliant and ...

Here’s a data point that may be useful in the tricky task of choosing between excellent translations of a Russian classic: In Constance Garnett’s canonical 1912 version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...

There are large swaths of “The Brothers Karamazov” in which Dostoyevsky’s vices are on full display. His chauvinism and antisemitism (Fyodor’s avarice is attributed to his time in the ...

Of all writers, Fyodor Dostoyevsky is the great artist of obsession. It is not surprising, therefore, that his monumental works—Crime and Punishment, The Possessed, The Idiot, The Brothers ...

The casino in the Kurhaus at Baden-Baden, one of three spa towns where the 19th-century Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, gambled his money away.Credit...Felix Schmitt for The New York Times ...

You may have a bit of Fyodor in you—many of us do: a little uncomfortable in our own skin, a bit at odds with the world, easily pushed into an existential funk. A dose of Dostoyevsky’s ...