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Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
2025
Penguin Press
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Book Review
Mark Twain and the Limits of Biography
The great American writer witnessed the forging of his nation – but Ron Chernow’s portrait cannot see beyond its subject.
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Erica Wagner
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New Statesman
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May 12, 2025
Longread
Twain Dreams
The enigma of Samuel Clemens.
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John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Harper’s
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April 29, 2025
Book Review
The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain
Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.
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Lauren Michele Jackson
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The New Yorker
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April 28, 2025