Dostoevsky and Tolstoy’s novels work as indictments of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Ukraine: What Would Leo and Fyodor Do?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Anna Karenina, Brothers Karamazov, Child Abuse, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hadji Murat, Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection, Russian Invasion of Ukraine, sadism, Vladimir Putin, War and Peace Comments closed
Just How Dangerous Is Fiction?
Peter Brooks’s new book, “Seduced by Story,” raises the issue of fiction’s role in horrors.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged atrocities, Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Peter Brooks, Russo-Ukrainian War, Vladimir Putin Comments closed
First They Came for Toni Morrison, Then…
In the right attacks Toni Morrison novels, does this mean that Homer, Dostoevsky, Milton, and Sophocles are next?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Beloved, Fyodor Dostoevsky, GOP, Homer, Odyssey, Oedipus, Sophocles, Toni Morrison Comments closed
The Great Books as Assimilation Manual
Phuc Tran’s “Sigh, Gone” describes how great literature helped him negotiate a difficult immigrant experience.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged assimilation, Fyodor Dostoevsky, great books, immigrant experience, immigrants, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Phuc Tran, Scarlet Letter, Sigh Gone Comments closed
Mueller Demythologized
Thursday I’ve written a lot about people’s hopes in Robert Mueller, which helps explain the palpable disappointment in his performance yesterday before two Congressional committees. From one perspective, there’s no reason to feel let down. After all, his report exposed one of the great scandals in American history: our president welcomed and encouraged Russian election […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "In the Pine Woods Crows and Owl", Arthur Conan Doyle, David Lodge, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean Renoir, Mueller Report, Robert Mueller, Rules of the Game, Russia investigation, Sherlock Holmes, Small World Comments closed
Trump as Raskolnikov
Is Trump as Raskolnikov, unable to hide the fact that he’s committed a crime so that a relentless detective is able to track him down. But while Mueller may be a Porfiry, Trump isn’t deep enough to be a Dostoevskian hero.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Donald Trump, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Idiot, Russiagate Comments closed
Sotomayor and Latina “Bias”
I’m going to take a break from one political topic—the disillusion that some who voted for Barack Obama are experiencing or will experience (and the ability of Gulliver’s Travels to help idealists of all stripes to understand and work through disillusion)—to take on another. There is a (predictable) furor over President Obama’s choice of Sonia […]
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