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Sunday at 4:00 at the west virginia statehouse because we need to put a face on this and not just numbers. >> it is hard. whether it's this or voting rights, it's hard for low-income folk and people who live in poverty to take that time out. it's a privilege for us to protest and get out there. you have warned we must not discount these people. very think of them voiceless so we talk around them rather than to to them. they are a voting block. they are powerful. if they are rejected, they will remember. >> exactly. we better understand, america, that a third of electorate is poor and all of th...

Theory of the Novel Instructors: Armstrong and Garréta Intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduates who want to pursue some area of novel, fiction, or narrative studies, this course examines a set of concepts that should provide them access to 1) the modes of thinking that characterize novels across the modern and contemporary periods and several different national traditions, 2) the various ways that critical theory has defined those concepts, and 3) reading the novel as a concept-driven argument in relation to other disciplinary discourses, especially critical theory. The ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky, painted in 1872 Credit: alamy Few episodes in fiction can be as hauntingly terrifying as Dostoevsky’s account in The Idiot of what it feels like to face a firing squad, only to have the sentence commuted just as the guns are cocked. Based on the author’s own experience after he was convicted of revolutionary subversion in 1849, it’s a moment that Alex Christofi selects as the opening of his “intimate” biography of the novelist, and it should set the temperature for what ensues.  In contrast to his contemporary Tolstoy, the great analyst of ordinary family life, D...

Dostoevsky in Love by Alex Christofi review – unpredictable, dangerous and thrilling Frances Wilson © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Peter Kovalev/TASS The first time he fell in love, Fyodor Dostoevsky was in his mid-30s. He had written two famous novels, Poor Folk and The Double, been arrested for treason, suffered a mock-execution, and served four years of hard labour in Siberia. He was now, in 1854, serving as a private in the army and the object of his desire, Maria Isaeva, was the capricious and consumptive wife of a drunkard called Alexander. When the Isaeva...

If you are adistricted that shouldn't be a criminal offense. if your kid is on drugs you don't say i'm giving you 27 years in prison. that will make it better. but we do that to poor folk's kids. almost only to poor folk's kids. when you combine the fact that you have to have a lot of money when you get in trouble to get out of trouble no matter the underlying facts and the fact that the penalties for drug offenses are so long that's why you have so many people behind bars. >> you've been working with republicans on this and there is a lot of bipartisan support. yet it doesn't seem like much p...