Translated by Mehri Ahi, the first edition of the Persian translation was published in 2016. “The Idiot” is a profound novel centered around Prince Myshkin, a young man in his mid-twenties who ...

For three years, the writer Laurie Sheck suffered from an undiagnosed illness, an agonizing facial pain that put normal life out of reach. She sought medical attention, but the doctors couldn’t seem ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Picture Dostoevsky in 1867. With his bride, Anna Grigorievna, he resided abroad, not for pleasure but to ...

Saturday, Nov. 11, is the birthday of Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of Russia's greatest novelists. The author of such classics as "The Brothers Karamazov," "The Idiot," and "Crime and Punishment," ...