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Did you know that in the US  1 in 4 adults live with a mental health condition? That’s according to the CDC. Does that seem high to you? It was 1 in 5 last year. At this rate, it will be 1 in 1 ...
All references to the Mark Twain riverboat have been removed from the Disneyland Paris website, indicating they won't fix the ...
The Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College is celebrating a decade of Broadway in Wilmington with a 2025-2026 season ...
In our weekly late night TV recap, everybody loves Conan O'Brien as he wins the Mark Twain Prize. Plus Amber Ruffin talks to ...
Percival Everett's novel 'James,' a reimagining of 'Huckleberry Finn' from the enslaved character's view, won the Pulitzer ...
“Purpose,” a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that was commissioned by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, has won the 2025 ...
James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” ...
Percival Everett has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel 'James,' a bold retelling of Mark Twain’s The ...
Penguin Press will publish Ron Chernow’s biography on Mark Twain next week, on May 13. A recent article by Lauren Michele Jackson in this week’s edition of the magazine, the “New Yorker,” reviewed ...
Everett’s novel was honored at the 2025 awards, along with other books in the categories of fiction, general nonfiction, ...
The Kennedy Center has awarded The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor since 1998 to recognize comedians and people in the ...
I've spent 30 years helping Californians learn more about themselves and their history, largely through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. President Trump has now gutted it.