The mighty Mississippi stretches for 2,300 miles, its rocky riverbanks touching 10 states. But in a deeper sense, the river flows through every corner of the American imagination, thanks to Mark Twain ...

A new edition of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn will replace the N-word with the word “slave.” As a literary purist I am outraged! (Sort of.) This has been a long-simmering controversy … for decades.

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“James” is Percival Everett’s remarkable reimagining of a Mark Twain classic from 1885. How many times must Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” have delighted, transfixed, angered, and ...

Mark Twains' Adventures of Huckleberry Finn opens with two warnings. In the first, Twain tries to head off any attempts to find a motive, moral, or plot in the book. In the second, he explains that ...

The rousing new production of “Big River” at TheatreWorks is a smooth-sailing evening of musical theater and classic American storytelling. The 1985 Tony winner for best musical, adapted from Mark ...

Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he also nursed grudges and suffered great losses. (Hulton Archive / ...

A professor's plans to omit racial terms in new editions of two classic Mark Twain books aren't a hit here — a region Twain visited and wrote about, and which last year hosted a reading of "The ...

"It's such a shame that one word should be a barrier between a marvelous reading experience and a lot of readers," says controversial Twain scholar Alan Gribben.