“There is still no satisfactory book on Anton Chekhov,” wrote the great Irish storyteller Frank O’Connor in 1963, and in 1988 the statement remains true, despite three distinguished recent attempts to ...

RBTH turns the clock back a century and shines a light on the now-forgotten stories being reported on the inside pages of Russian newspapers in 1915 and the events and processes occupying the minds of ...

'Anna Karenina,' translated by Rosamund Bartlett. Published in the UK in August, will be released in the U.S. on Nov. 15. Source: Amazon.com R.B: It was my good fortune to be invited to write a ...

Chekhov's biographers have retold, sometimes embroidered her version. In Janet Malcolm's delightful companion to his writing, Reading Chekhov, she points out that in 1988 Raymond Carver published a ...

“Chekhov,” V.S. Pritchett’s now-classic biography of the 19th century Russian story writer, physician and playwright, is newly available in an audiobook edition beautifully narrated by Antony Ferguson ...

I keep a photograph of Anton Chekhov on my mantelpiece. It's such an informal shot that it looks surprisingly modern. Chekhov appears to be sitting at a cluttered desk or a table, resting his head on ...

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 ...

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.

Yalta does not look like the kind of place Anton Chekhov would have chosen to spend his last years in. The seaside town surrounded by cliffs is today full of loud Russian holidaymakers. The neon signs ...