Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy, arguably the two greatest Russian writers ever, are not interchangeable: Tolstoy's prose is more accessible, and Dostoyevsky's ruminations are drearier....

Robert Musil, an admirer of the 19th-century Russian novelists, makes a worthy next read for fans of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Musil's depiction of pre-World War I Habsburg Empire society...

Literary novelists Hanya Yanagihara and Fyodor Dostoyevsky prize psychological insight into their complex, flawed, even unlikable characters, rendering psychic trauma and moments of...

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