His latest novel, James, is a reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of the enslaved ...

As a boy, Sean Stanford’s goal was to be a break dancer, but he grew up to be an antiquarian, co-owner and operator of Oak ...

I love America and have a heart broken. On Friday I finished watching Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's "The Vietnam War." Saturday and Sunday I watched "The House I Live In" and "The Vermont Movie" before ...

Ron Chernow’s exceptional biography devours the life’s work of Mark Twain, the perfect American writer who lived an imperfect ...

The marquee outside the Hermosa Beach Community Theatre read: Pages Presents An Evening with Ron Chernow. But inside, the ...

Mark Twain Tonight!,” originally created and performed by Hal Holbrook and now starring Richard Thomas, will be at ...

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Nov. 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), more famously known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American ...

Professor Stanley Stepanic is best known for his popular Dracula course, but his recommendation for this summer is a Japanese manga series based on the popular role-playing video game series Wizardry.

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, June 1, 2025, including hardcover and paperback ...

I’ve never trusted the word sublime, at least not enough to use it on the regular. I’ve always taken it to convey a sense of ...

Also on the New York Times hardcover list for the week ended May 10: new fiction by Fredrik Backman and several others.