Published in March 2024, James also won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award, and was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Provocative, raw, and once celebrated, these ten classics wouldn’t survive the modern publishing standards. Their pages still ...

Yann Martel's 2002 novel, also made into a 2012 Ang Lee film, gets a stage adaptation that is wondrously dreamy and profound.

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

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library has introduced a bold new brand identity—Profoundly Public—a declaration of its role ...

From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

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

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

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as ...