Bob Blaisdell

A revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life. In 1886, a twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was publishing short stories, humour pieces, and articles at an astonishing rate, and was still a practising physician. Yet as he honed his craft and continued to draw inspiration from the vivid characters in his own life, he found himself—to...

The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature, and we return to her, and the novel she propels, again and again. Remarkably, there has not yet been an examination of Leo Tolstoy specifically through the lens of this novel....