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

And yet, as Eric Marshall White persuasively argues in his admirable new biography of Gutenberg, such methods did not and ...

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

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

he asked. “No,” she replied, “afraid you would.” A new biography “Mark Twain” comes out May 25. The book has received rave reviews; not surprising as it is written by Ron Chernow ...

It might be asking too much to bring back Mark Twain from the grave. The great author passed away on April 21, 1910, some 115 years and a day or two ago in Redding, Connecticut and we ain’t had ...

Mark Twain International School (Mark Twain IS), the first private school in Romania to offer a dual curriculum, officially announces the opening of its Admissions Center for the new campus currently ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Mark Twain Chorale, Hannibal’s community chorus, will present its spring concert titled “Songs of Spring” at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 28, at Fifth Street Baptist Church, 111 N.

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Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing. By Alissa Wilkinson During every scene of this western, I couldn ...