Joseph Frank, the Class of 1926 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University, died of pulmonary failure Feb. 27 at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. His five-volume ...

A scholar concludes almost 50 years of biographical research with a final volume that reveals the novelist’s dark side Later this month, when Princeton University Press publishes the fifth volume of ...

On Nov. 11, 1821, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow. And exactly 101 years later, 5,000 miles away, Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis. Though separated by a century and an ocean, the two ...

In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel, a former student named Raskolnikov plans and perpetrates a savage murder in order to test his theory that he is an extraordinary man. His subsequent descent into ...

NEW YORK — Joseph Frank — whose magisterial, five-volume life of Fyodor Dostoevsky was frequently cited among the greatest of 20th-century literary biographies — died Wednesday in Palo Alto, Calif. He ...

Joseph Frank, whose magisterial, five-volume life of Fyodor Dostoevsky was frequently cited among the greatest of 20th-century literary biographies, alongside Richard Ellmann’s of James Joyce, Walter ...

On December 22, 1849, a group of political radicals were taken from their prison cells in Petersburg’s Peter and Paul Fortress, where they had been interrogated for eight months. Led to the Semenovsky ...

Although he was born 200 years ago, in a world that should be foreign to me, Dostoevsky formed my way of seeing the world more than almost any other person has. As a college student, I read Notes From ...

As a longterm fan of Dostoevsky (and yes, unusually for a 19th-century literary novelist, he does have a kind of fan club, many of whom are adolescents high on the thrill of first encountering his ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky—rigorous dialectician and grand inquisitor into the human soul—is having a moment. The American “new right” has enlisted the Russian author in the debate over “cancel culture”; and, ...

Few writers can draw on lived experience as dramatic as that of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Coming of age in St. Petersburg during a turbulent time in his country's history, he survived a death sentence, ...