Stop Trying to Believe in Yourself

Rethinking Belief and Reality

Stories hold secrets, and buried in the pages of The Brothers Karamazov is a saga that challenged my very being.

I find myself tortured over what Dostoevsky considered to be his masterpiece. It’s nearly a thousand pages of dense fiction. The setting is mid-nineteenth-century Russia, which is similar to what usually comes to mind when I imagine the 1850s…