Edward Snowden, NSA leaker, fugitive under the Espionage Act, trapped in limbo at a Moscow airport, has homework.
His lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, has given him a copy of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, along with a book by Anton Chekhov "for dessert". The most wanted man in the world is studying Russian lit – this is music to the ears of Russian majors everywhere. After all those years of being asked "So what're you going to do with that?" as if we had extra limbs, we finally have an excuse to talk about Dostoevsky.
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