What Dostoevsky and Turgenev promised each other

The relationships between great writers are always interesting to explore, for from them we don’t just learn more about their personalities but about the struggles they went through in their personal life, and, frankly, we just like gossip. I don’t enjoy reading biographies as much as I enjoy reading letters because they are written in an author’s voice and have personal quirks you wouldn’t encounter elsewhere. Although it’s easy to find letters online, it’s often hard to piece them together—you...