The hectic rhythms of this age are not those of an Anton Chekhov play. Yet the Russian writer is very much in evidence right now. More consumed with questions than with answers, Chekhov’s plays depict ...

From the introduction: “To indicate instances of Chekhov’s imagination at work and at play, I quote at length from his stories and letters and provide continual biographical commentary. It’s possible, ...

“There is still no satisfactory book on Anton Chekhov,” wrote the great Irish storyteller Frank O’Connor in 1963, and in 1988 the statement remains true, despite three distinguished recent attempts to ...

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian playwright and writer, whose plays received international acclaim, and who as a short-story writer is still regarded as virtually unmatched. Along ...

The Anton Chekhov Foundation has launched a collaborative project to translate Chekhov’s early short stories, many of which have never been published in English before. Beloved by audiences the world ...

I adore biographies, especially literary ones. There is always something to be learned from the lives of geniuses but, more immediately, reading about them reminds me that they were, after all, just ...

A winter’s night, a traveler, a story: a classic combination, as the great Italian storyteller Italo Calvino reminded us. For untold centuries, long before the Internet, the television or the shopping ...

Thanks to the discovery of the unpublished memoir of an eyewitness, Julian Evans can tell the full story of the great writer's final moments If you turn the tables on someone you reverse your ...

Laugh-out-loud funny and Chekhov are not words I have often had occasion to use in the same sentence. I've always associated the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov more with Russian misery, with ...

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