Selected by Tajikistan but ultimately not accepted by the Academy to compete in the Oscar international feature category, “Black Rabbit, White Rabbit” begins ambitiously, with a famous quote from ...

FROM THE DUST JACKET: To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov’s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the ...

Bob Blaisdell’s “Chekhov Becomes Chekhov” does exactly what its title promises: It tracks—story by story, month by month, sometimes day by day—how Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), the Moscow ...

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.

The following text is adapted from a keynote address given to the recipients of the 2017 Whiting Awards for emerging writers. When my mother’s mother began to die of a mysterious, undiagnosable ...

What do two contemporary playwrights have in common with Anton Chekhov? A bunch. By Alexis Soloski Halley Feiffer was a lonely high school student when she fell hard for a tall, dark and long-dead ...