ldquo;Science (including cognitive science) tends to isolate, quantify, narrow down a problem and then generalize on it; the literary humanities has conventionally pursued the very different goals of local context, personal depth, and idiosyncrasy. Each type of knowledge has its own precision, its own dynamic. In this rich and strenuously multidisciplinary collection of essays, Tom Dolack would bring the two together. From Pushkin through evolutionary biology to autism in Nabokov, mass shooters as Underground Men, and metaphor in the interactive speech genres of todayrsquo;s online sites, the reader is urged to welcome as many different approaches to knowing as the brain can bear. Whether or not literary (or virtual) characters have mindsmdash;and the verdict on that is still outmdash;the mix in this book of what can be cognitively measured and what cannot will challenge and delight even those who feel wholly at home in Russian literary worlds.rdquo;