From ‘Beam me up, Scotty,’ to, ‘Nice guys finish last,’ we love to use quotations. Except we use them all wrong, it turns out.
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Untangling Huck Finn’s racial politics: Book review
Andrew Levy reminds readers that Huck Finn was the abused son of an alcoholic and experienced suicidal ideation
The original Siamese twins
What conjoined twins Chang and Eng reveal about race, slavery and 19th-century America
The End: Peter Denney | 1944 – 2011
Since childhood, he’d loved adventures. After he retired in December, he and his wife set off on another one.
What the Huck?
A new edition of Huckleberry Finn will remove the offensive words.
Newsmakers
Ozzy Osbourne channels a Canadian farmer, M.I.A. feuds with the New York Times, and there’s a new Gadhafi in town
In the Shakespeare wars, James Shapiro fights for the Bard
A Q&A with the orthodox Stratfordian about Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud and other non-believers