All hell broke loose this month in the halls of academia. Medievalism, a field normally clean and cloistered, was rocked to its very foundations by the knowledge that one of its foremost members is a heretic. A quick and dirty summary of events ...

In the epilogue to Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky provides the reader with a harsh, swift summary of prison life's brutalities. Penitence is painful, prolonged, and merciless, and the author"€”writing from his own personal experience"€”tells ...