Day: October 7, 2025

She Gave an Onion

Dostoevsky was concerned lest his depiction be considered blasphemous, and he thus includes in his postscript “one small nota bene: please don’t imagine that I would allow myself, in a work of mine, even the…

Microscopic Goodness

Grushenka recounts a Rus­sian folktale about a wicked ­woman who dies and is condemned to the burning lake. Pitying her, her guardian angel recalls that the woman did one good deed in her life: she…