468 Chekhov Becomes Chekhov (with Bob Blaisde...

What does it mean to live a good life? How can we accomplish it? For more than two thousand years, Western civilization has looked to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics to help answer those questions. In this episode, Jacke talks to translator Robin Waterfield and scholar John Sellar ...  Afficher plus

What do Iranians - both home and abroad - think of race? Does "blackness" exist in Iran? And what can we learn about race and slavery in Iran from folklore, ethnography, literature, and films? In this episode, Jacke talks to author Amy Motlagh about her book Colorblind: Racial Th ...  Afficher plus

Chekhov's 1898 story "The Man In A Case", like many of his stories, was a comment on the social and political atmosphere prevalent in Russia at the time, and for that he was criticized often. This story was the first part of what has become known as "The Little Trilogy", along wi ...  Afficher plus

🎙️ 🎙️ SHOW NOTES — "The Schoolmistress" by Anton Chekhov In this quietly heartbreaking story, Anton Chekhov turns his attention to the life of a rural schoolteacher whose world is shaped by duty, exhaustion, and the small indignities of life on the edge of poverty. "The Schoolm ...  Afficher plus

Writer George Saunders on how famous short stories by writers like Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gogol are like miniature models of the world and how they can teach us to transcend our own limitations. (R)

For many years, author George Saunders taught a writing mastercl ...

An unknown narrator describes his ferry ride across a river in Russia to attend an Easter Eve service at a Russian Church. This story offers a great example of Chekhov's ability to create powerful imagery as well as carry a compelling narrative. APPLE .USERS 1001 True Crime From ...  Afficher plus