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

A pair of very different Southern humorists and a couple of funny scripts with full-cast productions are this month’s ...

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.

Happy US Independence Day, 4th July, wishes, images, quotes and greeting card messages are now trending across social ...

America's best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry and travel writings, but is rarely thought of as a political thinker and ...

Mark Twain, I think, would get in the car. I discreetly turn on my iPhone’s location-sharing feature as we head for their Pomeranian-size vehicle.

Fmr US Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder on ongoing discussions about peace between Russia and Ukraine. Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman discusses the latest in the war in Gaza. Romanian political ...

The new biography of Mark Twain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow covers all aspects of the life of the Hartford legend.

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 ...

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.

Conan O'Brien is the latest recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. See highlights from the ceremony, from Trump jokes to moving tributes from John Mulaney, Kumail ...

Mark Twain and the mysterious apparition floated hand in hand over cities and continents, spoke a language known only to themselves (“ Rax oha tal ”), and comforted each other with a love more ...