“The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece,” by Kevin Birmingham
Birmingham’s book is brilliant. Brilliant prose. It is full of brilliant biographical, historical, and cultural narrative. He brings the world Fyodor Dostoevsky inhabited to life and shows how Dostoevsky turned that world into a gripping novel about human nature, ideas, crime, and evil. But it is not only about Dostoevsky’s life and novel, but also […]