Merged Destinies in Chekhov Adaptation ‘Vanya’
Andrew Scott’s stunning one-man performance in Vanya captures your qualms and hypotheticals and throws them back at you not as a bang but as a whisper.
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Short Stories: Solitude and Loneliness
Five short stories—by Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Bharati Mukherjee, Anthony Doerr, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—explore various isolation, solitude, and loneliness pathologies from the perspectives of different lives and cultures.
Chronicling the Non-Event: Anton Chekhov and the Short Story
Chekhov is engaging with an underlying, rumbling, non-event that pervades life and yet is nearly always blithely ignored. His stories move us in their ability to excavate this subterranean, haunting static that informs all experience.
Should One Laugh, Cry, or Cringe at Mayer’s Adaptation of Chekov’s ‘The Seagull’?
Michael Mayer's take on Chekov's play is an engaging comedy of manners, but it flies by too quickly to appreciate the nuances of the writing.
An Artful Discussion About ‘The Art of Death’
Edwidge Danticat examines ways we leave the world as seen through her life and the narratives of other great writers.