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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portrait of the Russian writer Anton Chekov circa 1890-1904. (Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) The hectic ...

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 ...

There isn’t a bad seat in the house at the Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse. The small theater is an excellent venue for the ...

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 ...

When Chekhov lay dying in a spa town in Germany's Black Forest, his doctor ordered oxygen, only to have the playwright insist it was too late and request a bottle of champagne instead. It was a ...

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, ...

A new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard will begin previews at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan on June 7. The new play, The Orchard, will be performed live through July 3 and ...

January 29 marks the 150th birthday of Russian writer Anton Chekhov. I would say this is a most appropriate jubilee. The state of Russia today resembles the period in which Chekhov lived more than it ...

Movies are filled with tropes, those sometimes overused plot devices that we can see coming from a mile away. Sometimes it comes off as lazy, other times we are misdirected in such a way that we might ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...