“Every crime has two stories—the one the law sees and the one the criminal tells himself.” Chapter 1: The Crime The book opens with a seemingly straightforward crime: […]
German literature
Elective Affinities
“One cannot escape the world more certainly than through art, and one cannot bind oneself to it more certainly than through art.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Part […]
Russian literature
The Brothers Karamazov
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much […]