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The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow ... “The visual clarity of the scene is worthy of a Winslow Homer painting of rustic boys at play on a summer day.” But for the most part, Chernow doesn’t attempt ...
Conan O'Brien received the Mark Twain prize for humor in ceremony that drew Sarah Silverman, Will Ferrell, David Letterman and Stephen Colbert to the embattled Kennedy Center, setting the stage for ...
"Hartford is capable of surprising people," admits Colin McEnroe, Hartford native and the city's unofficial ambassador to the ...
Case in point, when he accepted the Mark Twain prize, this was a very different ... It can’t be easy creating a so-called golden age in culture and art when so many of the people who create ...
The 198 recipients of 2025 Guggenheim fellowships include at least eight who live or work in Connecticut, including several visual artists and composers.
This is a mistake — not, however, for the reasons given by leading humanities organizations such as the American Historical ...
WASHINGTON — Conan O’Brien accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday with a not-so-subtle broadside against President Donald J. Trump, whose takeover of the Kennedy Center, which ...