Traveling with Twain

Mark Twain, please meet the Internet. Mark Twain, Internet; Internet, Mark Twain. I wonder a lot about what our lost literary greats would do if ever confronted by this fine web of technology. The people who … Read more >>

Even the locals here never quite get used to feeling like amphibians, their skin slick with oil and sweat, goaded on by the sultry climate like a dare. I’m in India. A place I’ve always associated … Read more >>

“Are you an American?” Mark Twain once wrote in his notebook: “No, I am not an American, I am the American.” Twain was willing to compare Americans—however arrogant or ignorant—to smug, cultured Europeans and to declare Americans … Read more >>