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 ...

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 ...

Amounting almost to a “shadow” biography of Twain ... after a virtually unrelieved funding crisis. Mark Twain, of course, would be sympathetic. “The lack of money is the root of all evil ...

The mystery of Shakespeare's true identity explored through various theories, including the controversial idea of Shakespeare ...

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 ...

Bengaluru: The country's first human gene therapy trial for haemophilia was conducted through a collaboration between ...

In his concluding remarks, Dr. Jitendra Singh reflected on the future of India’s economy, which he asserted would be ...

It's a ripe time for a major Twain biography too, after Percival Everett's James (a re ... Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh by Robin Givhan (June 24) Like the Mark Twain book, this is a ...

Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh inspected the various facilities at BRIC-inStem and underscored ...

President Trump’s cultural agenda is reminiscent of a Stalin-esque playbook to some. Others say it’s a needed correction to ...