Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer.

Shaina Feinberg’s friendship with Joan Darling, a director and actress, gave her confidence to be both a filmmaker and a ...

so that there can be no doubt as to whether the smoke is white or black – something that had caused confusion in the past.

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Since its debut in 2024, the novel, James, has received accolade upon accolade – the National Book Award for fiction ... Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel following two runaways – a white ...

A Missouri mayor publicly criticized her white voters, accusing them of turning their backs on Black women in leadership ... finished with a children's book she began writing while in office ...

Medical textbooks mostly showed rashes on white skin. So this 20-year-old created a handbook to save lives. When Malone ...

Disney‘s live-action Snow White remake is set to arrive on Digital on May 13, followed by 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on June 24. The movie, which stars Rachel Zegler as the titular princess and ...

This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966. The book’s aim is to identify the source of its heroine’s discontent.

Almost immediately, it was deemed controversial by those who believed it was too sexually explicit for young readers, with some states going so far as to ban the book from schools ... difference ...