Twain's enduring relevance owes less to nostalgia than to the precision with which he exposed the patterns shaping ...

Mark Twain’s stories feel like an old friend who keeps reminding us why we fell in love with reading in the first place.

Mark Twain is an American icon. We now know him as the author of classics, but in his day he was a controversial satirist and public figure who traveled the world and lifted post-Civil War spirits ...

Now, Kitty brings that voice home to Sarasota with the first annual Mark Twain Festival at the historic Crocker Church in ...

Professional historian and educator Kathy Wilson presented a program on Thursday at the Marshalltown Public Library entitled, ...

Twain wanted Early Rose potatoes, a Vermont-bred heirloom, roasted in the ashes of a fire. Mussels from the waters around San Francisco. And hot broiled Virginia bacon. null p pulse Follow HARTFORD, ...

The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.

"He fights" -- Grant and Twain: a chronology -- 1. "A man with fire" -- 2. "A wounded lion" -- 3. "The small room at the head of the stairs" -- 4. "Turn him loose!" -- 5. "They have expelled Huck" -- ...

Ken Burns' latest opus is solid storytelling. It also highlights the costliness of our ignorance about our history.

A plate of assorted oysters at Swan Oyster Depot in San Francisco. Mark Richards To Mark Twain, San Francisco was coffee with fresh cream at the Ocean House, a hotel and restaurant overlooking the ...