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

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 ...

While the brothers’ time spent in Salt Lake City was brief, Twain’s narrative offers a humorous (albeit exaggerated and ...

“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 ...

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 1200 pages. When I first became aware of the imminent publication of a new biography of Mark Twain, my first reaction was a sustained groan. Yet ...

India is on the brink of becoming the epicenter of the global entertainment industry, according to Mukesh Ambani, Chairman ...

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 ...

The quote about Cincinnati being "20 years behind the times" is commonly attributed to Mark Twain. No one knows for sure whether the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" author really said it, but it's a ...