We use cookies to improve our services and remember your choices for future visits. For more information see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Independent, Reader-Supported Publishing
John Rosenthal
John Rosenthal is a photographer and writer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Reflections On Re-Reading Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
Book Review
Reading The Idiot again after five years I am struck by what does not fit into the usual critical categories, a certain kind of truth in the writing, the erratic unnameable of vision. I begin to see there is no proper category for the vivid, an impulse to reveal, an edging toward light.
December 1976
What Do You Think?
Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
SEND US A LETTER