In 1900, succumbing to that temptation, Mark Twain pointed to the 15th-century German inventor Johannes Gutenberg. More than ...

This month, pile your nightstand with a sizzling novel about power, lust, murder and tennis; a memoir from one of media's most powerful titans; a look inside an infamous art-world lair, and so much ...

Credit - T he best new books to read in May include historian and best-selling author Ron Chernow’s biography of Mark Twain, United We Dream co-founder Cristina Jiménez’s deb ...

Getting from having a cockroach to Mark Twain’s death-defying miracle started with reflecting on weird idioms, “a group of ...

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

“The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to Grief” (1865): The title says it all. Twain wanted to contrast the child in his story to typical Sunday School stories where dire consequences ...

Percival Everett spoke with Dan White, Humanities Writer at UC Santa Cruz, about the creation of his 2024 National Book Award ...

The truth, of words we needed to hear, a voice from the grave echoing across stages all over the word, brought back to try to ...

The mystery of what happened to Franklin and all of his men has never been entirely solved, though the wrecks of both his ...

This native to Birmingham, England relocated to the States to receive his film education from Howard University in Washington D.C., followed by the American Film Institute. After school, Brown ...

Written with "lovely candour", this is a wonderfully enjoyable autobiography, said Peter York in Literary Review, evoking a "golden age" of journalism that has now "utterly vanished". John & Paul ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum recently announced the appointment of Stacey Mueller as the new Tom and Becky program coordinator. Mueller, who has lived in Hannibal since 2008, ...