Selected by Tajikistan but ultimately not accepted by the Academy to compete in the Oscar international feature category, ...

A winter’s night, a traveler, a story: a classic combination, as the great Italian storyteller Italo Calvino reminded us. For untold centuries, long before the Internet, the television or the shopping ...

The hectic rhythms of this age are not those of an Anton Chekhov play. Yet the Russian writer is very much in evidence right now. More consumed with questions than with answers, Chekhov’s plays depict ...

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 ...

Admirers around the globe today mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Anton Chekhov, one of history's best-loved writers of plays and short stories. More than a century after his death, Chekhov ...

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 ...

What do Clint Eastwood, who transformed from cowboy to cantankerous old man, and Marilyn Monroe, who transcended the blond bombshell stereotype, have in common? Both have the teachings of Michael ...

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 ...