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 ...

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

Jay Sarno Jr., the son of the founder of Caesars Palace, has corrected the tale of Evel Knievel’s infamous Caesars jump.

The Gold Coast Book Fair is back for a second year, expecting crowds of over 5,000. The festival will be held from May 16 to ...

The East Indian described as an ‘exquisite and moving novel’ ... A Keene State College English professor’s novel, The East ...

This is the second of what is scheduled to be a three-volume transcript of Mark Twain’s autobiography. When complete, it will comprise only a tiny element in a vast project; so vast, indeed, that one ...

‘My books are simply autobiographies,’ Mark Twain once confessed. True of most American writers, it seems especially true of a man who, as Ron Powers argues in this magisterial biography, ‘found a ...

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 ...