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ONE MORNING LAST JUNE as I sat with author David James Duncan on his deck overlooking Rattlesnake Creek, David pointed to a blur moving across the creek.

Gary Saul Morson on the political and moral lessons of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Ukraine is no stranger to malign forces rampaging over its soil. While there is no solution to the problem of evil, literature – especially one 20th-century Ukrainian writer – can offer insi...

Erik Cleven is an associate professor in the Department of Politics at Saint Anselm College. Many people are frustrated with the state of American politics today. There is a high level of political polarization and many say our system is broken....

An American professor, who has dedicated his life and career to the study of Russian architecture, tells the story of Optina Pustyn, one of Or

Paul Contino offers a hope-filled reading of The Brothers Karamazov.

Influence and infatuation can make characters behave in surprising, and sometimes devastating, ways. Here, author Tara Isabella Burton discusses writing about influence in fiction.

Some Christians turn to the Bible or hagiographies for saintly inspiration.

Some Christians turn to the Bible or hagiographies for saintly inspiration.

Historian and architecture expert William Brumfield examines the obscure station where the great writer took his last breath. Astapo