Adaptations of classic works are tricky. In taking another crack at The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre or Anne of ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

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Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, May 11, 2025, including hardcover and paperback ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens may well have led a happier life if he had remained a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. But then ...

Coverage of the wars in Gaza and Sudan, and the attempted assassination of US President Donald Trump, dominated the Pulitzer Prizes announced Monday at Columbia University in New York, reported AFP.

2 JAMES (Doubleday, $28). By Percival Everett. A reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” told from the point of view ...

The Pulitzer Prizes were handed out this week, and as expected there was a crazy left-wing bent. Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Dylan Housman and Media Reporter Robert McGreevy discuss the worst ...

In an unusual but not unprecedented move, the prize board chose a fourth option after it couldn’t agree on the three ...