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The Biggest Misreading of Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov doesn't murder the pawnbroker for the reason you've been told.
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Why Contemporary Publishing Is Broken
What a Decade in the Query Trenches Taught Me About Modern Literature
Jun 15
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The Russian Word English Can't Translate
There's a Russian word that appears six times in the first four chapters of Crime and Punishment. No English translator has ever understood it…
Jun 8
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How I Became a Russian Jew
The story my parents never told me about why we came to America
Jun 4
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How English Departments Destroyed Literature
I got an A+ for calling Shakespeare transgender. But the problem is so much worse in English departments across the Western world.
Jun 1
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May 2026
Why I Left Marxist Academia
Watch the full interview with Andrew Klavan
May 27
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English Departments Have a Karl Marx Problem
How ideological extremism is shaping—and endangering—the humanities
May 25
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Top 10 Books of All Time
Most contemporary fiction will be forgotten. These books survived for a reason.
May 18
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Why College Turns People Into Socialists
The modern university mirrors the very economic system its graduates are taught to defend.
May 14
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Which Dostoyevsky Translation Should You Read? (A Brutally Honest Guide)
I Studied Translation Theory at Columbia. Here’s why it’s difficult to translate Dostoyevsky—and why you shouldn’t read Pevear and Volokhonsky.
May 11
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Columbia Taught Me Socialism. These Books Taught Me the Truth.
Here are the 7 books that destroyed everything I learned at Columbia
May 7
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I Thought I Was Going to Study Literature at Columbia. I Was Wrong.
English departments teach ideology rather than literature
May 4
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