A scholar concludes almost 50 years of biographical research with a final volume that reveals the novelist’s dark side Later this month, when Princeton University Press publishes the fifth volume of ...

NEW YORK — Joseph Frank — whose magisterial, five-volume life of Fyodor Dostoevsky was frequently cited among the greatest of 20th-century literary biographies — died Wednesday in Palo Alto, Calif. He ...

Joseph Frank, the Class of 1926 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University, died of pulmonary failure Feb. 27 at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. His five-volume ...

His marriages were disastrous but his words were so rousing they made strangers embrace ... a superb study of the Russian novelist The first time he fell in love, Fyodor Dostoevsky was in his mid-30s.

In the mid-1950s, the young critic Joseph Frank, having been invited to give the Christian Gauss lectures at Princeton, settled on the then fashionable topic "Existential Themes in Modern Literature." ...

As a longterm fan of Dostoevsky (and yes, unusually for a 19th-century literary novelist, he does have a kind of fan club, many of whom are adolescents high on the thrill of first encountering his ...

Although he was born 200 years ago, in a world that should be foreign to me, Dostoevsky formed my way of seeing the world more than almost any other person has. As a college student, I read Notes From ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Fyodor Dostoevsky was anything but a serene figure. He ...

Saturday, Nov. 11, is the birthday of Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of Russia’s greatest novelists. The author of such classics as “The Brothers Karamazov,” “The Idiot,” and “Crime and Punishment,” ...

Joseph Frank, whose magisterial, five-volume life of Fyodor Dostoevsky was frequently cited among the greatest of 20th-century literary biographies, alongside Richard Ellmann’s of James Joyce, Walter ...