Point blank truth: He never wrote a full novel and honestly he didn't even need to. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov spent 44 years of his life doing two things at once: practicing medicine and quietly ...

In the summer of 1884, shortly after qualifying as a doctor in Moscow, Anton Chekhov began working at a district hospital. “I am in fine fettle, for I have my medical diploma in my pocket,” he ...

For some years now I have been telling an anecdote, always prefacing it by announcing that it is my favorite literary anecdote, large parts of which, I have come to discover, I seem to have invented.

With its 2012-2013 season, "Provocative Tales: Eccentrics, Beasts, & Misfits," Theater Emory welcomes audiences to what writer Marina Warner calls the "blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be ...

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 foibles of human nature haven't changed since Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's time. Also a prolific author of short stories, Chekhov gently satirized his often-flawed human subjects. By turns ...

The year 1909 was a rough one for New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield. The consequences of many bad life decisions were caving in on her. Not only had she abandoned her first husband—originally her ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images/Isabel Infantes/Reuters/Michael Brochstein/Zuma Press When Anton ...