“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 ...

A Southern-gothic crime-thriller inspired by The Godfather! An extremely in depth biography of Mark Twain! And... 10 books we're looking forward to this spring Spring is here – the perfect ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the reissues on Richard Pryor — I Hope I’m Funny: The Warner Albums (1974-1983) are albums like …Is It Something I Said ...

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

Ward and Dayton Duncan in their 2001 Twain biography, Mark Twain: An Illustrated Biography. Some 70 miles north of Elmira, near the far end of Seneca Lake, I arrive at Seneca Falls (pop.

Two years later, Kilmer played Lt Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Tom Cruise's deadly fighter pilot rival in Top Gun. A thrilling ...

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