English nerds rejoice! All those hours spent reading Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” in high school paid off when How To Get Away with Murder roared back into our living rooms after the longest ...
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 ...
Few literary characters feel as disturbingly modern as Rodion Raskolnikov. Intelligent, isolated, morally agitated, and convinced that his mind places him above ordinary human rules, Raskolnikov is ...
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 ...
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment raises profound questions about morality, law and the human psyche through its protagonist, Raskolnikov, who believes that "extraordinary" individuals have the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the summer of 1865, Fyodor Dostoyevsky — one-time literary prodigy, former political prisoner, debilitated ...
In September 1865, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was living in Wiesbaden, Germany, and couldn’t pay his rent. A string of gambling losses had left him near financial ruin, a familiar circumstance for Dostoyevsky ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic psychological thriller ‘Crime and Punishment’ has been reinterpreted in a bold new open-air production in London. RBTH correspondent Alexandra Guzeva attended one of the ...
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 ...