Dostoevsky's

Assuming it's this sort of unmanly behaviour with which Terry steadfastly refuses to have any truck, one can only imagine the futility of his struggle as he fist-pumps and snarls his way around the Chelsea dressing room, seeking out rogue copies of such classics as Dostoevsky's The Idiot, which are notoriously bad for morale.

Premier League stars need to woman down before they man up | Barry Glendenning 2011

Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov passes through a crucible of atonement on the way to a kind of redemption, but Gohar, who is at first terrified by what he has done, simply rises above the murder by ceasing to care about it: Even a crime left him indifferent.

Tales of Jaunty Anarchy on the Nile Sam Sacks 2011

The inspiration for this novel came from your own graduate studies, specifically your investigations into the life of Apollinaria Suslova, who was Dostoevsky's mistress.

Lara Vapnyar discusses her first novel, Memoirs of a Muse, about a Russian immigrant determined to become the muse of a famous artist. 2010

On quite different grounds, he then divides genuine art into good (Dostoevsky's "House of the Dead," the biblical narrative of Joseph) or bad (the stories of Maupassant), depending on whether the reader is infected with moral or immoral emotions.

The Searcher Gary Saul Morson 2011

Apollinaria Suslova, Dostoevsky's mistress and muse.

Lara Vapnyar discusses her first novel, Memoirs of a Muse, about a Russian immigrant determined to become the muse of a famous artist. 2010

What I would say is that Dostoevsky's peak moments are more magnificent but that there's also more weak material in there.

Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose? 2010

She is interested in finding words for a whole array of disparities, for the different emotional mixtures that coalesce when her teenage self reads Tolstoy in her grandmother's house in Turkey, when she's studying in Samarkand one hot summer where she has to pick ants out of the jam, when she's experiencing a collective infatuation at grad-school that mirrors her understanding of Dostoevsky's Demons.

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman – review 2011

As always it is tempting to look for antecedents: Sterne's meanderings, Céline's rawness, JG Ballard's dystopian futures, the isolationism of Walden's pond, the anti-rationalism of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground.

La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq – review George Walden 2010

Petr Zelenka's The Karamazovs collides film, theatre and literature, as a Czech troupe attempts to stage Dostoevsky's novel in a Polish steel factory.

This week's new film events 2011

Directed by Jesse Peretz—and co-written by his sister, Vanity Fair contributor Evgenia Peretz, and her husband, David Schisgall—the film finds comedy in contemporary mores; satire in hypocrisy; and inspiration in Dostoevsky's "The Idiot."

'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart John Anderson 2011