Large parts of the novel were also dictated to his wife so she could write it down while he was ill. Dostoyevsky was truly brilliant

This grackle grips me

The country is stuck within the cracks of the schism it has pulled itself too. The current administration is only a symptom of a deeper failing within our culture in which we are killing our own humanity in an empty pursuit to conquer the natural world

There was a height in the literary world hit in the 19th century. To understand our modern world, reading through the classics is the bare minimum for gaining context of our place in history and in navigating the uncertain waters of the present day