Mark Twain, of course, would be sympathetic ... before Clemens’ death and continues with Bernard DeVoto, Dixon Wecter, Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson. Hirst, after studying literature ...

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A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

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“At this point, all the rivers of the Bible are identified, and it seems that all we need is to follow the course of the Oceanus River around the globe to pinpoint the location of Eden,” he ...

US President Donald Trump, center right, and Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, center left, during a meeting in the Oval ...

Nicolas Puech agreed to sell his multibillion-dollar stake in his family’s luxury goods empire to the royal family of Qatar, but then said he couldn’t gain access to his shares. By Ephrat ...