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 ...

Not everyone who loves Anton Chekhov for his short stories necessarily loves his plays. When Chekhov's literary hero Leo Tolstoy saw one of his younger friend's new dramas in the late 1890s, Tolstoy ...

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 ...

THAT WORTHLESS FELLOW PLATONOV— Anton Chekhov; translated by John Gournos—Button ($2.50). Anton Chekhov, prince of Russian short-story writers, prince of Russian playwrights, wrote one play that has ...

The Russian author’s tale sees a serial seducer fall in love (Getty) When I was about 30, I discovered Chekhov. A bit late in the day, admittedly, but I’d gone with a friend to see The Seagull and we ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. What does the writer's life betray? It's a question that bedevils the biographical enterprise at least the literary brand. And it's the ...

'Write as much as you can!! Write, write, write till your fingers break!" This advice, which Anton Chekhov sent to Maria Kiselyova in a letter in 1886, was the motto by which he lived and worked. He ...

Thanks to the discovery of the unpublished memoir of an eyewitness, Julian Evans can tell the full story of the great writer's final moments If you turn the tables on someone you reverse your ...