Our reading for March is Notes from Underground, the famous short novel by the great novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. It’s a Russian novel (Russia is in the news) and is narrated by a civil servant (civil servants are in the news). David Denby has said in the New Yorker that “Nietzsche’s writings, Freud’s theory of neurosis, Kafka’s Metamorphosis,’ Bellow’s Herzog,’ Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint,’ perhaps Scorsese’s Taxi Driver,’ and half of Woody Allen’s work wouldn’t have been the same without the existence of this ornery, unstable, unmanageable text.”