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UNBELIEVABLE: Dostoevsky - The Untold Story

Quote of the day by Khaled Hosseini: 'A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer' and why guilt is the starting point for redemption

The Kite Runner, published in 2003, was one of the greatest works of Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir and Hassan against the backdrop of an unstable Afghanistan. In the novel, Rahim Khan, the moral guide and father figure to Amir says the quote: A man…

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After losing both my parents, I realised what I needed: the total isolation of a Hebridean island

Complete solitude may not be for everyone, but walking the windswept Harris hills by myself gave me the space to contemplate a difficult year, says Graham Snowdon, editor of Guardian Weekly

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‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails

Pixar’s new film tells young viewers that technology has stolen their childhood and that parents need to wise up fast. Its stars answer your questions on the series’ radical new message

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Crime and Punishment review – gripping portrait of Dostoevsky’s murderous antihero

Laurie Sansom’s bold decision to stage the literary classic with a cast of three pays off in parts thanks to compelling performances and an atmosphere of shadowy dread

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The Gambler review – kooky dancing and onstage rock in dizzying Dostoevsky adaptation

Japanese company Chiten abandon naturalism for rhythmic dialogue and highly stylised movements – but there is much invention to admire

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GTA 5's Trevor actor feels "nothing inside" for GTA 6 and tells gamers to go "read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment," while Franklin's actor says "f*** that book"

"I'm not a gamer. I've never played video games."

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‘In his company you could not be lazy’: remembering my friend Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

A giant of African literature whose best works existed between the political and the personal, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was warm, funny and friendly – and liked to bet on my pool games

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Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel review – 100 years of magical thinking

Edwin Frank’s finely judged survey of modern fiction from Dostoevsky to Sebald will have you reaching for novels you hadn’t thought about in years

The Guardian - UK

In brief: History in the House; Rabbits; Summer in Baden-Baden – review

A study of Christ Church, Oxford, brings its characters to life, Hugo Rifkind skewers posh-boy mores in his new novel, and an underappreciated Soviet author returns to the spotlight

The Guardian - UK

Fury v Usyk capable of the gravitas of an era when boxing held sport’s greatest prize

This fascinating clash of character and style will provide the first undisputed heavyweight champion of the 21st century

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‘I’d hate to act in the nude’: Tom Basden on risque writing, sitcom gold and casting Carey Mulligan

His BBC One series Here We Go has single-handedly revived the family sitcom genre, and Hollywood stars love his short films. Might he be one of Britain’s most versatile comedy writers?

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The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgård review – cosmic mysteries

Long-lost siblings are linked across time and space in this expansive novel of ideas from the author of My Struggle

The Guardian - UK

¿Que? What’s a university without a foreign language?

Reading about West Virginia University’s plan to solve a budgetary shortfall by eliminating the study of foreign languages, it occurred to me the entire purpose of a college education has been turned inside out since my undergraduate days.

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‘Justice is on our side, and Putin is old’: Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh

The novelist and press secretary to the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny talks about imprisonment, survival and writing under the regime

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Orlando Figes: ‘Gorbachev was a very sharp and likable person’

The award-winning historian on Putin’s cult of personality, why he loves Turgenev, and giving up on books after 20 pages

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Pickpocket review – existential thrills in Robert Bresson’s study of a thief’s progress

Bresson’s 1959 film about a misfit who dreams of rising above conventional morals is a brilliant example of the cinema of ideas

The Guardian - US

We must stop letting Russia define the terms of the Ukraine crisis

A question like ‘Did US intelligence-sharing with Ukraine cross a line?’ forgets the fact that it was Russia that crossed the line – by invading Ukraine

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Unchain Me review – Dostoevsky inspires secret mission on the streets of Brighton

dreamthinkspeak’s timely new production on inequality and abuse of political power offers its audience a choice: complicity or compliance?

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University of Milano-Bicocca Suspends Dostoevsky Class, Then Backtracks

Putin's crime, Dostoevsky's punishment. Well, he's dead, maybe the students' and teacher's punishment.

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I was shooting coke between chapters of Dostoevsky – but eventually books would save me from addiction

At first, I could hardly get through a novel. But slowly reading – and writing – saved me from a life of drugs, rehab and jail

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