“There is nothing nobler, stronger, healthier, and more helpful in life than a good remembrance, particularly a remembrance from our childhood, when we still lived in our parents’ house.

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 ...

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.

GE once did everything for the typical American family - from providing much of the television they watched, to the light bulbs and appliances they depended upon, the electricity needed to power ...

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 ...

Elif Batuman has named both a novel and a nonfiction book after works by a certain 19th-century Russian author who wrote, among other things, “The Brothers Karamazov.” Who is this writer?

In the tradition of Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Josephine Cox comes a heartrending and unforgettable saga about a mother, her daughters and the shocking events that threaten to destroy their lives.

He was made British citizen in 1886 and changed his name to Joseph Conrad. In 1889 Conrad visited the Congo and his experiences there inspired Heart of Darkness. In 1894 he published his first novel, ...