Mark Twain

Of war and cancer Of war and cancer

Five years after Bush invaded Iraq, anti-Americanism has metastasized. But we can still beat it.
By Gary Kamiya Mar 18, 2008

  • Our favorite murderer

    We may try to hate Tony, but our love for the careworn killer wins out. It's that moral perversity, in the age of Bush, that I'll miss most about "The Sopranos."
    By Gary Kamiya June 9, 2007

  • Big two-hearted Mark

    "Mark Twain," Ken Burns' new documentary, brings to feisty, heartbreaking life the most beloved -- and American -- of American writers.
    By Gary Kamiya January 14, 2002

  • Twainmania

    The sleepy town of Hannibal, Mo., braces itself for a deluge of Twain devotees inspired by a forthcoming Ken Burns documentary.
    By King Kaufman October 25, 2001

  • The undersecretary's dangerous trip

    Karen Hughes takes her "Innocents Abroad" tour to the Middle East -- and plays into the hands of Osama bin Laden.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 29, 2005

  • "Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln" by Richard Slotkin

    A splendid piece of mythmaking views the young hero's coming of age through the lens of Huckleberry Finn.
    By Laura Miller February 11, 2000

  • The 7 vices of highly creative people

    If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it.
    By D.A. Blyler February 9, 2000

  • Going for the perfect high

    Choosing a high school was a lot easier when you didn't get to choose.
    By Merle Kessler January 27, 2000

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2000
    By Joyce Millman January 26, 2000

  • Dept. of slight exaggerations

    Mark Twain's recently rediscovered account of an 1868 hanging turns out to be not all that rediscovered.
    By Douglas Cruickshank October 4, 1999

  • To spy is human, to plagiarize divine

    Cicciolina, Fembot fer real; John Mackay: I have not yet begun to write! Plus: Mark Twain, eyewitness to a hanging. Gulp.
    By Douglas Cruickshank September 30, 1999

  • Run, Lowell, Run

    The Connecticut Yankee could stop Pat Buchanan from hijacking the Reform Party -- and give that Texas preppy in cowboy boots a run for his money in November.
    By Bruce Shapiro September 14, 1999

  • Sharps & flats

    Utah Phillips tells Old West tales and hardscrabble anecdotes. But don't call him a folk singer.
    By Simon Rodberg August 25, 1999

  • The adventures of Sir Peter Ustinov

    The actor, novelist, playwright and director talks about what it was like to follow in Mark Twain's footsteps -- literally.
    By Daniel Mangin August 24, 1999

  • Mr. Smith flips off Washington

    Sen. Bob Smith deserts the GOP in the middle of his long-shot bid for the presidency.
    By Jake Tapper July 14, 1999

  • A lucky break in Paklay

    In which our correspondent gets drunk on rice whiskey one night and finds himself invited onto a boat the morning after.
    By Rolf Potts July 8, 1999

  • Lotus-eating in Luang Prabang

    Buddhist temples, watermelon shakes and crazed speedboat racers meet in the ancient Lao capital.
    By Rolf Potts July 7, 1999

  • Guns, muskmelon breasts and the Laotian Gandhi

    An American takes a Mark Twain-like journey by riverboat down the Mekong.
    By Rolf Potts July 6, 1999

  • A kinder, gentler cowboy

    Ric Lynden Hardman revives the cowboy genre with "Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western" -- a picaresque, cocky, playful coming-of-age novel.
    By Polly Shulman June 4, 1998

  • Personal Best: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
    By Gary Kamiya September 30, 1996
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