Yuri Corrigan is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Boston University. He is the author of Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self (2017) and the editor of Chekhov in Context (2023).

• Note on Chekhov's TextsIntroduction1. Moral Anesthetics: On Responding to the Pain of Others2. The Tertium Quid: On Healing and Resisting Culture War3. The Beleaguered Host: On Mitigating Modern Loneliness4. Barren Landscapes: On Discerning the Meanings of LifeConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"This marvelous book is the best treatment we have of the incomparable Chekhov as a moral philosopher! Human discomfort, complexity and compassion loom large in Corrigan's masterful treatment of Chekhov's major stories, plays and letters. There is no doubt Corrigan is one of the few great critics of Russian literature, especially of Chekhov and Dostoevsky, in our time." —Cornel West, author of Black Prophetic Fire "Corrigan conducts an examination of Chekhov's work so perspicacious, so new in its insights, and so very compelling that some things we have come to accept as foundational about Chekhov must now be reconsidered. Important and, frankly, thrilling work." —Cathy Popkin, Editor of Anton Chekhov's Selected Stories, Norton Critical Edition "A sobering book in the truest sense, Chekhov's Antidotes is a call to reject the opioid of indifference and the highs of zealotry." —Jennifer Wilson, staff writer at The New Yorker "In an age riven by vicious partisanship, Chekhov represents a third way. Corrigan's reader will sense this book's profound relevance in our own troubled time—and possibly gain a glimmer of hope." —Carol Apollonio, author of Simply Chekhov "Can literature provide antidotes to the poisonous conflicts we experience at the time of crisis? In his most unusual book, Corrigan shows how to read Chekhov in this way." —Irina Paperno, author of "Who, What Am I?": Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self "An erudite reassessment of the works of 19th-century writer Anton Chekhov.... [Corrigan] ably positions Chekhov alongside other prominent philosophical writers such as Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. This brings new relevance to a literary great." —Publishers Weekly

Yuri Corrigan is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Boston University. He is the author of Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self (2017) and the editor of Chekhov in Context (2023).

• Note on Chekhov's TextsIntroduction1. Moral Anesthetics: On Responding to the Pain of Others2. The Tertium Quid: On Healing and Resisting Culture War3. The Beleaguered Host: On Mitigating Modern Loneliness4. Barren Landscapes: On Discerning the Meanings of LifeConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"This marvelous book is the best treatment we have of the incomparable Chekhov as a moral philosopher! Human discomfort, complexity and compassion loom large in Corrigan's masterful treatment of Chekhov's major stories, plays and letters. There is no doubt Corrigan is one of the few great critics of Russian literature, especially of Chekhov and Dostoevsky, in our time." —Cornel West, author of Black Prophetic Fire "Corrigan conducts an examination of Chekhov's work so perspicacious, so new in its insights, and so very compelling that some things we have come to accept as foundational about Chekhov must now be reconsidered. Important and, frankly, thrilling work." —Cathy Popkin, Editor of Anton Chekhov's Selected Stories, Norton Critical Edition "A sobering book in the truest sense, Chekhov's Antidotes is a call to reject the opioid of indifference and the highs of zealotry." —Jennifer Wilson, staff writer at The New Yorker "In an age riven by vicious partisanship, Chekhov represents a third way. Corrigan's reader will sense this book's profound relevance in our own troubled time—and possibly gain a glimmer of hope." —Carol Apollonio, author of Simply Chekhov "Can literature provide antidotes to the poisonous conflicts we experience at the time of crisis? In his most unusual book, Corrigan shows how to read Chekhov in this way." —Irina Paperno, author of "Who, What Am I?": Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self "An erudite reassessment of the works of 19th-century writer Anton Chekhov.... [Corrigan] ably positions Chekhov alongside other prominent philosophical writers such as Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. This brings new relevance to a literary great." —Publishers Weekly

Yuri Corrigan is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Boston University. He is the author of Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self (2017) and the editor of Chekhov in Context (2023).

• Note on Chekhov's TextsIntroduction1. Moral Anesthetics: On Responding to the Pain of Others2. The Tertium Quid: On Healing and Resisting Culture War3. The Beleaguered Host: On Mitigating Modern Loneliness4. Barren Landscapes: On Discerning the Meanings of LifeConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"This marvelous book is the best treatment we have of the incomparable Chekhov as a moral philosopher! Human discomfort, complexity and compassion loom large in Corrigan's masterful treatment of Chekhov's major stories, plays and letters. There is no doubt Corrigan is one of the few great critics of Russian literature, especially of Chekhov and Dostoevsky, in our time." —Cornel West, author of Black Prophetic Fire "Corrigan conducts an examination of Chekhov's work so perspicacious, so new in its insights, and so very compelling that some things we have come to accept as foundational about Chekhov must now be reconsidered. Important and, frankly, thrilling work." —Cathy Popkin, Editor of Anton Chekhov's Selected Stories, Norton Critical Edition "A sobering book in the truest sense, Chekhov's Antidotes is a call to reject the opioid of indifference and the highs of zealotry." —Jennifer Wilson, staff writer at The New Yorker "In an age riven by vicious partisanship, Chekhov represents a third way. Corrigan's reader will sense this book's profound relevance in our own troubled time—and possibly gain a glimmer of hope." —Carol Apollonio, author of Simply Chekhov "Can literature provide antidotes to the poisonous conflicts we experience at the time of crisis? In his most unusual book, Corrigan shows how to read Chekhov in this way." —Irina Paperno, author of "Who, What Am I?": Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self "An erudite reassessment of the works of 19th-century writer Anton Chekhov.... [Corrigan] ably positions Chekhov alongside other prominent philosophical writers such as Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. This brings new relevance to a literary great." —Publishers Weekly