Reflecting on Mark Twain’s wisdom, this editorial explores resilience, facing life’s toughest challenges head-on, and finding ...

The CSD is a fan of Mark Twain’s quote that 'a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can lace up its boots.' That quote has never been truer than it is today.

Robert Hirst is curator of the Mark Twain Papers at UC Berkeley, where a small army of editors has been laboring for six years to reconstruct the autobiography just as Twain wished it to be.

Mark Twain, in his bestseller The Innocents Abroad, commented on travel as the great unifier: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely ...

What we get wrong about Mark Twain Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author became such a fixture in American literature and life, despite his failings.

The river gave the author his name: the cry “mark twain” from a boatman meant that the river was of safely navigable depth. To him the river represented liberty and a connection to the wider ...

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. This was not ...

Comedian Conan O'Brien walks out on stage at the start of the 25th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Conan O'Brien, Sunday, March 23, 2025, at the Kennedy Center for the ...

Conan O'Brien arrives at the 25th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Conan O'Brien, Sunday, March 23, 2025, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. (AP ...

Conan O'Brien received the Mark Twain Prize at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as it undergoes changes since Trump's takeover.

Backpacking quotes capture the essence of the backpacking experience, the sense of freedom, adventure, and connection with ...