What to read this May from a superb debut novel to a five-star biography - THE LIST: Martin Chilton shares his May reading ...

Almost overnight, it seems, Donald Trump switched from outspoken foe of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell — whom he had ...

Actor and historian Doug Riley appeared as Mark Twain at the Brooke County Public Library on April 24. Riley offered a look ...

Fourth graders at Mark Twain Elementary are helping each other’s families fight food insecurity through a program they call “Food Bag Fridays.” ...

Biographer Ron Chernow on how the author of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ made himself one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

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 ...

T he best new books to read in May include historian and best-selling author Ron Chernow ’s biography of Mark Twain, United ...

Novels by Stephen King and Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow’s latest blockbuster biography, a new graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and more.

By Dan White Acclaimed novelist Percival Everett will step onto the stage of the Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz this ...

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 ...