Worth Every Ruble: Katz’s ‘Brothers Karamazov’

Guest Reviewer John Stamps Explains What Sets The New Translation Apart

It took almost a century and half, but Michael R. Katz has finally given us the translation of The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky and his English readers deserve. Katz transforms the novel into a legal thriller worthy of John Grisham. You think I jest? I do not. It crackles and zings. Every paragraph is impassioned, fiery, and intense. Characters jump fr…