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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
James Mustich
Is life unfair? Is circumstance fate? Can we ever take the law into our own hands to change it? Fyodor Dostoevsky’s first major novel poses these questions in the tale of a man who enacts brutal crimes in order to break the strictures of his social destiny. For Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, the han...show more
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Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A tour de force of authorial concentration and psychological acuity, Dostoevsky’s groundbreaking novella invites us into the bowels of mid-nineteenth-century Saint Petersburg, even as it charts a stylistic and thematic course for a great deal of modern fiction to be written beyond Russian borders. A...show more
Billiards at Half Past Nine
Heinrich Böll
There should be something by Heinrich Boll, one of Post-War Germany’s most important writers and a Nobel prize winner in literature. Boll’s literature reflects values of simple decency and humanity, in the context of a culture in which conformity to brutalities and ugliness reign dominant. His writ...show more