Joseph Epstein writes of a Harvard economics professor by the name of Alexander Gerschenkron who claimed to have read ...
His media diet also includes reading The Brothers Karamazov, keeping up with ContraPoints videos on YouTube, and listening to Taylor Swift while waiting for her upcoming album. The television show ...
The diagnosis was made public in 2022. An acid, impish writer, Mr. Durang never met a classic (“The Brothers Karamazov,” “The Glass Menagerie,” “Snow White”) that he couldn’t skewer.
It took me a whole summer to read The Brothers Karamazov, but it was life-changing. The philosophical questions that Dostoyevsky raises, the stories within the stories, how perfectly he captured ...
Alas, the aspirant’s literary heroes — William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoevsky — led lives of wondrous adventure. Dostoevsky had even “been put on a train and shipped to the ...
It's a searing critique of extremism and the dangers of ideological fanaticism. Based on Dostoevsky's own experiences with gambling addiction, this novel offers a compelling portrayal of the ...
Durang’s first professional production was “The Idiots Karamazov,” presented at Yale Rep in 1974. A musical comedy inspired ...