A person who has an absurd love of Kentucky might well say that author and humorist Mark Twain — birth name Samuel Clemens — ...

The Noon Year’s Eve celebrations got underway at several local branches, including the Mark Twain Neighborhood Library, on Tuesday, in an effort to offer kids a way to celebrate the occasion ...

Underground libraries, James Baldwin for tykes, Margaret Atwood afloat: Our favorites from a year that kept pages turning ...

I keep a notebook of all the books I read, and at year’s end I take stock. This year, I read 40 books, down significantly ...

Jean Strouse, in her extraordinary, definitive biography “Morgan ... and an autographed manuscript of Mark Twain’s “Pudd’nhead Wilson,” purchased directly from the author.

It seems that every generation gets its own high-profile Mark Twain biography. This year’s attempt at a canonical life story of Samuel Clemens comes from the Pulitzer-winning biographer of ...

If you’ve been spending precious time doomscrolling instead of allowing yourself to curl up with a book, perhaps this holiday ...

In this dual biography, Anolik attempts to better understand ... Everett’s Booker Prize-nominated literary retelling of Mark Twain’s controversial Adventures of Huckleberry Finn resets the ...