Literary Studies
Author and scholar Kevin Birmingham has shown that books as much as people are worthy subjects of biography. This year he has followed up The Most Dangerous Book, his award-winning account of the battle to get James Joyce’s Ulysses published, with The Sinner and the Saint, a book about the genesis of another classic: Crime and Punishment. In this week’s episode of The ABR Podcast, Geordie Williamson reads his review of Birmingham’s latest study, one which ‘brings microscopic detail and a sense of drama to the composition’ of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece.
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by Gary Pearce •
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a crime and its punishment by Kevin Birmingham
by Geordie Williamson •
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine by Will Loxley
by Paul Kildea •
Lines of Fire: Manning Clark and Other Writings by Peter Ryan
by Peter Pierce •
Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian modernism on stage, 1960–2018 by Denise Varney
by Jonathan Dunk •
A Matter of Obscenity: The politics of censorship in modern England by Christopher Hilliard
by Geordie Williamson •