Can Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment Prevent Crime?

Why U.Va. students are teaching Russian literature at a juvenile correctional center

Why U.Va. students are teaching Russian literature at a juvenile correctional center

Literary Hoo-O-Meter

The University of Virginia has bit parts and sometimes starring roles in popular fiction. Here we rate novels with our trusty Hoo-O-Meter.

Bestsellers at the U.Va. Bookstore: October through December 2011

Fiction/Poetry

Inheritance by Christopher Paolini The Litigators by John Grisham The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures by Caroline

Required Reading

Edward G. Lengel, editor in chief of the Papers of George Washington at U.Va., recently published Inventing George Washington: America’s Founder in Myth and Memory.

Punks and Players

New York Times 10 Best Books of 2011 list features two U.Va. debut novels

Writing a first novel is a gamble. Authors can spend years developing a story, typically with no guarantee it will ever get published, much less

The Power of a Poet

Remembering Robert Frost’s 1960 visit to Grounds

When I was in my second year, poet Robert Frost came to the Grounds for the dedication of the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American

News Briefs

Rita Dove receives National Medal of Arts; Students receiving free electrionc texts; Recycling at Scott Stadium; Darden Dean Bruner named Dean of the Year; VQR; Rankings

Out of the Fire

War reporter and survivor named Distinguished Alumna

Foreign affairs graduate Kimberly Dozier (Grad ’93) will join the ranks of news anchor Katie Couric (Col ’79) and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (Law ’83) as

Poet and Professor Rita Dove Receives National Medal of Arts

How We Collaborate

A writer works with a sports legend

Jonathan Coleman co-authors book with sports legend Jerry West

Life Lessons on the Green

David Cook’s golf novel adapted to the big screen

David Cook (Educ ’82, Grad ’84) has become a best-selling author and a movie producer, but he is first and foremost a sports psychologist. Soon after he started working

New & Notable

“How do you keep going when you want to curl up into a ball and never leave your bedroom? How do you squeeze all the joy out of life

Required Reading

Ann Beattie Photo by Sigrid Estrada

Creative writing professor Ann Beattie recently published Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life, an exploration of the elusive first lady, Pat Nixon.<

Letters to the Editor

Time Bomb

I was delighted to find in the Fall 2011 issue the admirable account of the debt troubles caused by Uncle Sam’s fiscal recklessness (“Our National ‘Time Bomb’”).<

How to Keep New Hires

Lilith Christiansen (Com ’95) explores why people stay at their jobs

Ever search for a new job ... on the job? According to Lilith Christiansen (Com ’95), management consultant, and co-author of the book Successful Onboarding, almost one third of new hires