FIFTY-TWO STORIES. By Anton Chekhov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Knopf. 508 pages. $35. In a lecture published posthumously in 1981, Vladimir Nabokov had this to say about ...

Anton Chekhov was probably the least statuesque major Russian writer of his generation. He wrote short stories rather than novels, lived modestly, and rarely boomed out complicated philosophical ideas ...

Anton Chekhov’s “Sakhalin Island,” his long investigation of prison conditions in Siberia, is the best work of journalism written in the nineteenth century. The fact that so few people know of the ...

Broadway found room this spring for classics from two titans of modern drama — Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” and Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” It’s thrilling that at such an uncertain time ...

“The Seagull,” one of Chekhov’s most popular plays and a favorite among actors, returns with a new production directed by ...

Although Chekhov claimed the play was "a comedy, sometimes even a farce", audiences and readers frequently perceive a hint of ...

Benedict Andrews’s production in London offers perfectly pitched comedy where other directors find somber tragedy. By Houman Barekat The critic Houman Barekat saw the show at the Donmar Warehouse When ...

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 ...

Chekhov’s gun is a dramatic principle that maintains that every element of a play should fulfill its promise to the audience—for example, a loaded gun that appears in the first act must go off by the ...

The Russian great has much to say on the struggle and art of professional writing (Getty) I first encountered Chekhov’s letters when I took my lecturing job at the University of Kent in 2004.

*Originally published on May 12, 2021. A famous actress brings her lover, a well-known writer, to the family estate. Her son, who also wants to be a writer, has written a play, and family and friends ...