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'Wonder Confronts Certainty' — A Conversation with Professor Gary Saul Morson about the Deep Mysteries of Great Russian Literature

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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The Overpowering Power of Experience

I tend to read literature as a theologian and as a historian, so it's pretty similar. What makes this Russian literature so overpowering at times is that it refuses to disengage. You know, there's a Czecho story I talk about called lights. And the young man believes in a version of nihilism which he gets out of ecclesiastes.

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