V. S. Pritchett has written of Dostoevsky that he "is still the master because] he moves forward with us as the sense of our danger changes." Nearly a century and a quarter have passed since Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel began to appear in installments in The Russian Herald. The essays in A New Word on "The Brothers Karamazov" show us that Dostoevsky does indeed continue to change with us, and that The Brothers Karamazov is very much a novel of our time.
Edited by the nation's most respected senior Dostoevsky scholar, this collection brings together original...

The first reader to offer a comprehensive view of Maurice Merleau-Ponty s (1908-1961) work, this selection collects in one volume the foundational essays necessary for understanding the core of this critical twentieth-century philosopher s thought.
Arranged chronologically, the essays are grouped in three sections corresponding to the major periods of Merleau-Ponty s work: First, the years prior to his appointment to the Sorbonne in 1949, the early, existentialist period during which he wrote important works on the phenomenology of perception and the primacy of perception; second, the...

Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a range of Russian writers, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Solzhenitsyn, Close Encounters explores themes of chance and fate, freedom and responsibility, beauty and disfiguration, and loss and separation, as well as concepts of criticism and the moral purpose of art.