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  • I'm starting to think Megan and Moe's dialogue about Bobby and Susan the Possessed is not just deliciously funny, but very close to the truth of the matter.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • I'm starting to think Megan and Moe's dialogue about Bobby and Susan the Possessed is not just deliciously funny, but very close to the truth of the matter.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Among other things, The Possessed is a record of her decision to become a reading kind of writer rather than a novelist herself.

    The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman – review 2011

  • The trick is that The Possessed is a book about reading much more than it is one about writing.

    The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman – review 2011

  • In The Devils -- this reviewer believes The Possessed is the more appropriate translation of the title -- the focus is vied for by once somewhat renowned social critic Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky (Elia Schilton), his wealthy but changeable landlady Varvara Petrovna Stavrogina (Maddalena Crippa) and her homicidal, wastrel son Nikolay Vsevolodovich Stravrogin (Ivan Alovisio).

    David Finkle: First Nighter: Peter Stein Scores with Dostoyevsky's The Demons for 12 Hours! 2010

  • The severe rear-end tester is director Peter Stein's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 700-page novel The Demons (also known as The Possessed or The Devils), which is about political (read: incipient communism) and religious (read: the encroachment of atheism) discontent in a small Russian town circa the post-serf-freeing 1860s.

    David Finkle: First Nighter: Peter Stein Scores with Dostoyevsky's The Demons for 12 Hours! 2010

  • Would you pick up a book called Possessed, Undressed, and in a Mess if you were in the mood for a funny sexy paranormal romance?

    Entitled Dayle A. Dermatis 2009

  • The technique they have planned is going to be given a trial run first though, perhaps to prove it to Lionsgate that it would work, in Eduardo Sánchez's next low budget horror film called Possessed, and it's something that he says audiences have never seen.

    Filmstalker: Blair Witch 2 story set 2009

  • Would you pick up a book called Possessed, Undressed, and in a Mess if you were in the mood for a funny sexy paranormal romance?

    Archive 2009-01-04 Dayle A. Dermatis 2009

  • Festival will unfold in seven venues on and off the Lincoln Center campus, including two major theater events on Governors Island-the North American premiere of Peter Stein's 12-hour marathon production of Dostoyevsky's The Demons (also known as The Possessed) and the North

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

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