IntroductionWhat if a system built to prevent tragedy identified the wrong person with near-perfect confidence? What happens when a system built to prevent tragedy identifies the wrong person with near-perfect confidence?The Empty Chair is a modern story inspired by the moral questions at the heart of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.Set in New York … [Read more...] about The Empty Chair: A Modern Brothers Karamazov Story
The Brothers Karamazov Explained by Top Dostoevsky Scholars
What if The Brothers Karamazov is less about answering questions than teaching us how to live with them?What if the strongest argument against God in modern literature was written by a deeply religious novelist?Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov has remained alive for nearly 150 years since it refuses to offer readers easy moral comfort.The novel contains … [Read more...] about The Brothers Karamazov Explained by Top Dostoevsky Scholars
The Brothers Karamazov Explained Through Its Characters
What if the person who committed the murder was not the only one responsible for it? A father has been murdered.One son threatened to kill him.Another secretly wished for his death.A third may have given the killer the ideas he needed.The man who committed the murder is dead, and the brother who did not commit it has been convicted.So who is truly … [Read more...] about The Brothers Karamazov Explained Through Its Characters
Before Yes: A Modern American Story Inspired by Albert Camus
What if the most important moral decision in your life happened long before the tragedy itself? Introduction by By Albert CamusWhen I wrote The Stranger, I did not intend to create a hero.Nor did I intend to create a villain.I wanted to place one ordinary man before a series of ordinary decisions and ask whether honesty alone is enough to guide a human … [Read more...] about Before Yes: A Modern American Story Inspired by Albert Camus
The Stranger Explained by Top Albert Camus Scholars
What if Meursault has been misunderstood for more than eighty years? Introduction by Albert CamusGood evening.When I wrote The Stranger, I did not expect readers to spend more than eighty years arguing over one quiet man.I certainly did not expect philosophers, historians, literary critics, psychologists, lawyers, and ordinary readers to keep … [Read more...] about The Stranger Explained by Top Albert Camus Scholars
Albert Camus’s The Stranger Explained Through Its Characters
What if remaining neutral could still make you responsible for another person's suffering? Introduction by Albert CamusWhen I wrote The Stranger, I did not intend to create a hero.Nor did I intend to create a villain.I wanted to place one ordinary man before a series of ordinary decisions and ask whether honesty alone is enough to guide a human life.For … [Read more...] about Albert Camus’s The Stranger Explained Through Its Characters
The Last Store on Main Street: Inspired by The Sound and the Fury
A Modern Story Inspired by The Sound and the FuryEvery family has a story they tell the world.Then there is the story they tell themselves.And somewhere between those two stories...is the truth.For nearly ninety years, Vale & Sons stood at the center of a small Midwestern town. Children bought their first school shoes there. Couples opened wedding … [Read more...] about The Last Store on Main Street: Inspired by The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury Explained by Top William Faulkner Scholars
Six Great Scholars. One Masterpiece. Nearly a Century of QuestionsThere are books people enjoy.There are books people admire.Then there are books that seem to become larger every generation.The Sound and the Fury belongs to that final group.Nearly one hundred years after its publication, scholars still return to it—not because they cannot explain it, but because … [Read more...] about The Sound and the Fury Explained by Top William Faulkner Scholars
The Sound and the Fury Explained by Its Characters
William Faulkner Brings the Compsons Together One Last TimeMost people don't finish The Sound and the Fury because they think it's too difficult.They believe they're failing the book.What if the opposite is true?What if William Faulkner never wanted readers to understand everything on the first reading?What if he wanted them to feel it first?Tonight, for the … [Read more...] about The Sound and the Fury Explained by Its Characters
The Building That Stopped Seeing | Modern Camus Story
What if the rats were never the plague, but only the first sign that people had stopped paying attention? Albert Camus began The Plague with something almost absurd.Not a dramatic death.Not a political crisis.Not even the disease itself.He began with a dead rat.Most people dismissed it.Then another appeared.Then another.Only later did everyone realize the … [Read more...] about The Building That Stopped Seeing | Modern Camus Story