If it seems that only uncivilized people could be such sadists, Dostoevsky cautions, know that the same thing could happen among civilized Europeans as well.

The curious minds at Aperture recount how Dostoevsky survived a death sentence and channeled that experience into transformative literary work.

Perhaps, Dostoevsky suggests, she has exaggerated her parental responsibility, given herself a task too great for a mother to fulfill. So what is her motherly duty?

It was Dostoevsky’s misfortune that the part of this discussion which came under his notice was the pert atheism and utilitarianism which were the dregs of the draught of ideas brewed by the ...

Although there is no evidence that Dostoevsky knew his Ukrainian contemporaries, they did interact with some other famous Russian authors.

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 ...

Dostoevsky's evocative novella. A tale of love and loneliness in 19thC St Petersburg.

Did Fyodor Dostoevsky Say This About Tolerance? We wondered if this was a statement about our times.

Swiping right on DostoevskyDark romance walks a razor-thin line between fascination and discomfort. It delves into the murky depths of human relationships, where love intersects with betrayal ...

Kafka judged it correctly in arguing that Dostoevsky’s characters are not all lunatics – just ‘incidentally mad’, like the rest of us (Getty) The Brothers Karamazov has been my friend ...

An expansive view of crime and those who commit crimes that had this reader wishing Dostoevsky could be interviewed about the present.