Why You Should Read Dostoevsky

Rational Badger argues that Dostoevsky's legacy extends well beyond Crime and Punishment and recommends five other essential works — The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Demons, Notes from Underground, and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. He explains how Dostoevsky's mastery of human psychology, his exploration of free will, faith, suffering, and existentialism, and his multidimensional, morally complex characters make reading him deeply enriching, quoting Nietzsche, Freud, Einstein, and Solzhenitsyn's line that 'the line separating good and evil passes right through every human heart.'