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...