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Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of ...
All references to the Mark Twain riverboat have been removed from the Disneyland Paris website, indicating they won't fix the ...
The Kennedy Center has awarded The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor since 1998 to recognize comedians and people in the ...
In our weekly late night TV recap, everybody loves Conan O'Brien as he wins the Mark Twain Prize. Plus Amber Ruffin talks to ...
By noon Sunday, regional actor Kelley Elder was already applying makeup to his face inside one of the dressing rooms at Theatre Workshop of Owensboro’s Trinity Centre. It was ahead of Elder’s third of ...
Conan O'Brien is the latest recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. See highlights from the ceremony, from Trump jokes to moving tributes from John Mulaney, Kumail ...
Biographer Ron Chernow on how the author of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ made himself one of the world’s most recognizable brands.
Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.
Conan O'Brien, late-night show host, comedian, and podcaster, is the winner of the 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded by the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
“Purpose,” a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that was commissioned by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, has won the 2025 ...
Actor and historian Doug Riley appeared as Mark Twain at the Brooke County Public Library on April 24. Riley offered a look ...
Percival Everett has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel 'James,' a bold retelling of Mark Twain’s The ...