It is as bitter a piece of social irony as the unhappy marriage in Edith Wharton’s “A Custom of the Country.” I do not know why it should be so, but afsensitive man sacrificed at the altar is always a ...

Shania Twain is no nepo baby -- she worked hard and took a lot of humble gigs to make a living before she was the country-pop ...

A taste of Mark Twain is coming to Elmira with the return of Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight!, performed by award-winning ...

The “universal river” that Twain traversed, all he saw and felt and wrote about can’t really be recaptured by a biographer.

Growing up in a book-filled Cambridge house, the middle daughter of two successful writers, it is unsurprising that Hester ...

Shania Twain celebrated turning 60 with an iconic throwback shared on Instagram Thursday. The "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" singer wore a sparkling blue pantsuit with a silver-trimmed blazer in the ...

The Queen of Country Pop is 60! Shania Twain celebrated her milestone 60th birthday on Instagram Thursday, sharing a throwback photo from earlier in her career and a new underwear-clad photo. The ...

On this episode of Start Making Sense, John Nichols on the military in the cities, and Adam Hochschild on Mark Twain. Jon Wiener Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without ...

Mark Twain and his family are buried in the Langdon family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY. The plot originally belonged to Twain’s father-in-law, Jervis Langdon, and contains 28 burials.

Editor’s note: Richard Bammer’s column appears every other Sunday in the print edition of the Reporter. Mark Twain covered Congress for a brief period for various newspapers in the post-Civil War era, ...