As I bend over the desk about my writing I am crouched before Aesred in something like an attitude of supplication: whensoever I look up from the typewriter keys, and over the top of my reading glasses so that I may quite clearly see my...
To the twentieth century, annual collections of short stories are as familiar as “Keepsakes” or “Tokens” were to the nineteenth. At first sight of still another year-book of the American short story, Thomas H. Uzzell’s “Short Story Hits...
Haiti, as it turns out, isn’t particularly prone to earthquakes. Hurricanes and political turmoil, yes: it seems that every few years Haiti is buffeted with one or the other of those, and, either way, lots of people are killed. But...
Alexander Meiklejohn, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Jacques Maritain, and Mark Van Doren have, in that order, testified as to the state of liberal education. Their testimony so consistently reports the bankruptcy of liberal education in our...
Translated from the Russian and Edited by S.S. Koteliansky
The whole year of 1878 Dostoevsky spent in writing “The Brothers Karamasov.” The serial publication of the novel and continuous work on it took him another two years, 1879 and 1880...
Translated from the Russian and Edited by S.S. Koteliansky
I
One of Dostoevsky’s early letters has recently been published in Russia. It gives quite a clear picture of his state of mind during the first years of his literary activity.
War correspondents have never evidenced much interest in their paternity, but at least they have entertained no doubts as to the parent’s identity. Sir William Howard Russell, by universal agreement, is accorded the title “Father of War...
