I'll confess that I've never read Crime and Punishment, but apparently it's full of confusingly similar names, as a result of all the diminutives, patronymics, diminutive patronymics, and so on. Into this breach leap the brave programmers of bonkworld.com with The Amazing Dostoevsky Machine which allows you to pick distinct (and distinctly unusual) names for … Continue reading What’s in a Name?

They grew up together, taught English together, and now the Mulgray Twins have written a book together. Read it with someone you love or at least closely resemble. (Click on the picture to read the whole story.)