The Brothers KaramazovDiary of a WriterThe Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote The Brothers Karamazov , Crime and Punishment , The Idiot , and many other novels. Susan McReynolds is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. She is the author of Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky's Economy of Salvation and Antisemitism . Her articles have appeared in Philosophy and Literature , Partisan Review , Dostoevsky Studies , and Literary Imagination .