Boris Fishman’s Chekhov is a writer of the people, and that’s the Chekhov we’ll be exploring together during the August edition of Restless Reads, our virtual online book club. Before his death from tuberculosis at the age of forty-four, Chekhov wrote nearly a thousand short stories. His radical commitment—radical for his time—to telling complex human truths above simple ideological ones have made those stories some of the most influential ever written.