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

Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” ...

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

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

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

As for Wolfhard’s film, he explained that it is “a coming-of-age teen comedy that’s sort of masked as a slasher movie.” “It’s scary, but it’s also just about… [it’s] funny ...

Professor Marloes Janson and and Professor Jieyu Liu from the College of Law, Anthropology and Politics deliver their inaugural lectures from two different and distinctive themes. Professor Janson's ...

And, because not all that glitters (or glisters) is gold, we are including some that missed the mark. Some of ... But like any lovestruck teen, she ignores the voices of adult reason: "O Romeo ...

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Final chance to see our 'glittering science history blockbuster' (The Guardian)—must close 21 April! Visitors will be transported to the world of the French royal court to discover spectacular objects ...

I’m old. I’m out. And I’m proud. After all, as they say, “Consider the alternative.” It’s a quote attributed to everyone from Mark Twain to Maurice Chevalier, and it’s as true today as ever. With ...