The Courant’s arts picks for May 11-17 include Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Al Stewart and Livingston Taylor, George Clinton and ...

The book on Twain has been in Chernow's thoughts for decades, dating back to when he saw Hal Holbrook play him on stage in ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

But it was Catholicism that she was secretly drawn to from an early age, first through books and movies (“The Nun’s Story,” and “The Sound of Music”) and later through the beauty of the ...

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Ocean's Eleven, Steven Soderbergh 's 2001 caper, turns 25 next year, yet it remains firmly present in the cinematic firmament ...

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

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