Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

FIFTY-TWO STORIES. By Anton Chekhov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Knopf. 508 pages. $35. In a lecture published posthumously in 1981, Vladimir Nabokov had this to say about ...

The Complete Plays by Anton Chekhov Edited and translated by Laurence Senelick Norton, 992 pp., $39.95 Of great modern writers, the one readers tend to think of as most like themselves is Anton ...

Instead of sheets – dirty tablecloths.’ The notebooks of Anton Chekhov are full of enigmatic observations such as this, the unexplained details that suggest a whole scene, short story or character.

As a teenager, my aunt bought me a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace before I was about to leave the UK for a few months travelling alone. She herself had read it on a similar trip at the same age and ...