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Gulag: Note to writers and editors (1)

The other main focus of my current research is Gulag literature,  particularly the short stories of Varlam Shalamov. I’ll write more about him soon, and post some of my work, but first I have a couple of observations to make on the use of the term ‘Gulag’ itself. The assimilation of foreign words into a language […]

My work (1)

I’m going to be posting some of my articles and conference papers, and  on the right you will see that the first one, “Dostoevsky Today,” is already there. It’s the introduction I wrote to Dostoevsky: On the Threshold of Other Worlds, a Festschrift for my PhD supervisor Malcolm Jones, which I co-edited with Lesley Milne. Published […]

Blogs are the newspapers of Dostoevsky’s day

One of the aims of this blog is to bring you the latest news and views from the world of Dostoevsky studies.  Everybody knows that hardly anyone, my students included, actually bothers to read Dostoevsky, as this article from The Onion*, Film Adaptation Of “The Brothers Karamazov” Ends Where Most People Stop Reading The Book, […]

Dragging myself into the internet age

Welcome to my new blog.