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

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as ...

Andrew Klavan defends the spiritual value of depicting evil. But he often discounts the spiritual danger involved.

A couple of recommended fiction books this month are Sarah Moss’s Ripeness (Picador), an impressive story of love and ...

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

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

Okay, I’m getting something… I predict that the cost of living will continue to rise, birth rates will continue to fall, and ...

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William Saville-Kent's book of illustrations and photographs was published in 1893.(Supplied: W. Saville-Kent) His book attracted worldwide attention and was for decades the definitive work on the ...

This informs how she sees and interprets the world: “Illustration is another way for me to explore ideas,” she explains. Her colourful and tactile images often blur the lines between play and poetry, ...

His stark and stunning work for Playboy, The New York Times and Manhattan’s underground papers heralded a new era of conceptual illustration ... Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain.

During the first decade of the 20th Century, Hannibal philanthropist W.B. Pettibone quietly negotiated with farmers and orchardists owning property in the Scipio Tract, north of the Hannibal and ...