The Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College is celebrating a decade of Broadway in Wilmington with a 2025-2026 season ...

“Purpose,” a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that was commissioned by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, has won the 2025 ...

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, memoir, poetry, history and biography.

The Kennedy Center has awarded The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor since 1998 to recognize comedians and people in the funny business for their impact on American society. “For four decades, Conan ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of ...

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.

The event highlighted the success of the "Everyone Can Help Someone" campaign and the vital work of local organizations ...

Wally Lamb clearly drew on his experience conducting prison workshops while writing 'The River Is Waiting,' a novel about a ...

By noon Sunday, regional actor Kelley Elder was already applying makeup to his face inside one of the dressing rooms at ...

Regional actor Kelley Elder from Evansville talks about his one-person show "Mark Twain Here!" — where Elder portrays the ...