Mark Twain

James by Percival Everett – Huckleberry Finn reimagined

A bravura rewriting of Mark Twain’s classic from the enslaved Jim’s point of view

Marcel Theroux

11, Apr, 2024 @10:00 AM

James by Percival Everett review – a gripping reimagining of Huckleberry Finn

Percival Everett’s gleeful reboot of Mark Twain puts the enslaved Jim centre stage in a horrifying, painful and funny novel

Anthony Cummins

08, Apr, 2024 @6:00 AM

Music is the food of love, so sing on | Brief letters

17, Oct, 2022 @4:29 PM

Alan Johnson: ‘I read Animal Farm at 14 and it changed my life’

The author and former home secretary on disliking Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend and his fondness for PG Wodehouse

Alan Johnson

17, Sep, 2021 @9:00 AM

‘You think wrong!’: top 10 rants in literature

Some distrust kvetching in print, but writers from Shakespeare to Valerie Solanas show there’s nothing wrong with constructive – and even destructive – criticism

Lucy Ellmann

25, Aug, 2021 @11:00 AM

Hal Holbrook obituary

American stage and screen actor who often played authority figures and was known for his characterisation of Mark Twain

Brian Baxter

03, Feb, 2021 @5:53 PM

Top 10 Shakespearean books | Robert McCrum

William Shakespeare’s influence on English literature is enormous, but from Dr Johnson to Germaine Greer, some outstanding works have explored his legacy and life story

Robert McCrum

02, Dec, 2020 @11:00 AM

American classics among most ‘challenged’ books of the decade in US

Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird among works protesters have tried to get removed from schools and libraries

Alison Flood

28, Sep, 2020 @3:04 PM

The Prince and the Pauper review – trading-places twins double the fun

Sisters Danielle and Nichole Bird create a dreamlike mirror image in a superbly staged production, alive with music, wit and spectacle

Mark Fisher

25, Nov, 2019 @9:26 AM

Why would one man read Mark Twain's whole library?

Alan Gribben has spent 45 years navigating fakes and tracking down lost tomes to study Samuel Langhorne Clemens’s book collection

Terena Bell

01, Apr, 2019 @11:00 AM

Who said it: Strictly's Craig Revel Horwood … or Mark Twain?

The writer and the dance judge have both spread their wit and wisdom across three bulging volumes of autobiography. But can you tell who said what?

Stephen Moss

16, Oct, 2018 @2:56 PM

'Hurtful' Harper Lee and Mark Twain dropped from Minnesota curriculum

To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn to be dropped from Duluth area classes because of ‘uncomfortable atmosphere’ their use of racial slurs creates