Mark Twain - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/mark_twain/?source=rss&aim=mark_twain en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT Of war and cancer By Gary Kamiya Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/03/18/iraq_anniversary/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/03/18/iraq_anniversary/index.html?source=rss Five years after Bush invaded Iraq, anti-Americanism has metastasized. But we can still beat it. Our favorite murderer By Gary Kamiya Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/06/09/tony_soprano/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/06/09/tony_soprano/index.html?source=rss 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." Big two-hearted Mark By Gary Kamiya Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2002/01/14/twain/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2002/01/14/twain/index.html?source=rss "Mark Twain," Ken Burns' new documentary, brings to feisty, heartbreaking life the most beloved -- and American -- of American writers. Twainmania By King Kaufman Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/10/25/twain/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/10/25/twain/index.html?source=rss The sleepy town of Hannibal, Mo., braces itself for a deluge of Twain devotees inspired by a forthcoming Ken Burns documentary. The undersecretary's dangerous trip By Sidney Blumenthal Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/09/29/hughes_diplomacy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/09/29/hughes_diplomacy/index.html?source=rss Karen Hughes takes her "Innocents Abroad" tour to the Middle East -- and plays into the hands of Osama bin Laden. "Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln" by Richard Slotkin By Laura Miller Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/02/11/slotkin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/02/11/slotkin/index.html?source=rss A splendid piece of mythmaking views the young hero's coming of age through the lens of Huckleberry Finn. The 7 vices of highly creative people By D.A. Blyler Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/02/09/sevenvices/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/02/09/sevenvices/index.html?source=rss If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it. Going for the perfect high By Merle Kessler Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/01/27/school/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/01/27/school/index.html?source=rss Choosing a high school was a lot easier when you didn't get to choose. Blue Glow By Joyce Millman Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/glow/2000/01/26/glow/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/glow/2000/01/26/glow/index.html?source=rss Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2000 Dept. of slight exaggerations By Douglas Cruickshank Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/log/1999/10/04/retwain/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/log/1999/10/04/retwain/index.html?source=rss Mark Twain's recently rediscovered account of an 1868 hanging turns out to be not all that rediscovered. To spy is human, to plagiarize divine By Douglas Cruickshank Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/rogue/1999/09/30/spy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/rogue/1999/09/30/spy/index.html?source=rss Cicciolina, Fembot fer real; John Mackay: I have not yet begun to write! Plus: Mark Twain, eyewitness to a hanging. Gulp. Run, Lowell, Run By Bruce Shapiro Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/09/14/weicker/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/09/14/weicker/index.html?source=rss 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. Sharps & flats By Simon Rodberg Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/1999/08/25/utah/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/1999/08/25/utah/index.html?source=rss Utah Phillips tells Old West tales and hardscrabble anecdotes. But don't call him a folk singer. The adventures of Sir Peter Ustinov By Daniel Mangin Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/int/1999/08/24/ustinov/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/int/1999/08/24/ustinov/index.html?source=rss The actor, novelist, playwright and director talks about what it was like to follow in Mark Twain's footsteps -- literally. Mr. Smith flips off Washington By Jake Tapper Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/07/14/smith/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/07/14/smith/index.html?source=rss Sen. Bob Smith deserts the GOP in the middle of his long-shot bid for the presidency. A lucky break in Paklay By Rolf Potts Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/1999/07/08/mekong3/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/1999/07/08/mekong3/index.html?source=rss In which our correspondent gets drunk on rice whiskey one night and finds himself invited onto a boat the morning after. Lotus-eating in Luang Prabang By Rolf Potts Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/1999/07/07/mekong2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/1999/07/07/mekong2/index.html?source=rss Buddhist temples, watermelon shakes and crazed speedboat racers meet in the ancient Lao capital. Guns, muskmelon breasts and the Laotian Gandhi By Rolf Potts Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/1999/07/06/mekong1/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/1999/07/06/mekong1/index.html?source=rss An American takes a Mark Twain-like journey by riverboat down the Mekong. A kinder, gentler cowboy By Polly Shulman Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/wild/1998/06/04/shul/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/wild/1998/06/04/shul/index.html?source=rss Ric Lynden Hardman revives the cowboy genre with "Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western" -- a picaresque, cocky, playful coming-of-age novel. Personal Best: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Gary Kamiya Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:03:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1996/09/30/twain/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1996/09/30/twain/index.html?source=rss "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain