Who could resist the title? László F. Földényi’s new book of essays is called “Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears” (Yale). It sounds like something that might happen in a Dostoyevsky novel: cause and effect scrambled, reason abolished by extremity, the thunderclap of irrationality producing religious storms of weeping and abasement. And behind it all something faintly farcical, deliberately exaggerated—another of Dostoyevsky’s self-consciously scandalous “scenes.” After...

William Faulkner claimed that he wrote “As I Lay Dying” in six weeks, and the speed makes sense—it comports with the quick intimacy of the book’s form, in which a chorus of first-person narrators plunge us into their soliloquies. This novel, hovering somewhere between the older epistolary structure and pure dramatic monologue—between correspondence and a playscript—becomes magically liberated from the more burdensome narrative machinery, that wheezing apparatus of persuasion and pastness....

A church warden was stabbed to death in a Co-op yesterday as his dementia-suffering wife waited in the car, it has been revealed. Church warden John Rees, 88, left his wife Eunice, 87, in their Honda car while he queued up at a convenience store in Pen-y-Graig, south Wales on Tuesday for their weekly shop. But he died after a woman 'went mad' and stabbed him in the throat - also injuring three others during her rampage including NHS nurse Lisa Way, 53, who was on a shopping trip between...

A former board member of Harvey Weinstein's film studio has been ordered by a British judge to submit evidence to a tribunal investigating sex assault after he claimed he didn't have to because he lives in the US. Tim Sarnoff, deputy CEO of film processing giant Technicolor, resigned from the board of The Weinstein Company in 2017, days after allegations of Weinstein's rampant sexual harassment came to light. However in a sex discrimination claim made in a British employment tribunal against...

The Queen's role as a driver and mechanic during WWII helped shape a teenage princess Elizabeth into the country's longest reigning monarch, a new documentary will reveal. The story of how what she called 'the terrible and glorious years of WWII' and how it forged her character for years to come will be told in Our Queen At War, due to be broadcast on ITV 1 at 9pm tomorrow. Drawing on interviews with a childhood friend, people who shared her experiences, and royal experts, it will explore how...