Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...

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Censorship is dangerous, but I am struggling to see how we fight the rising tide of hate and fear without it, writes ...

Mark Twain: "As an example to others ... He created a uniquely American voice that captured the vernacular speech of the young nation. As famous an orator as a writer, Twain elevated storytelling ...

Let us consider, then, some of the movies released in the summer of 2000.

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Six Bay Area researchers slammed recent funding cuts by President Donald Trump’s administration in a strongly worded lawsuit ...

Triumph opened the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Award presentation ... BIANCULLI: It was as much a lecture as an acceptance speech, and it also may have provided a clue to a hidden ...

Among the seventy guests present were "Mark Twain." Henry M ... Mr. Clemens would make his speeches, he would leave him to make the speech now if Mr. Clemens thought he could remem- ber it.