Mississippi
What Mark Twain owed to Charles Dickens
It wasn’t just Dickens’s stage performances and publishing ventures that fascinated Twain, but the witty, journalistic style, which he mimicked to great effect in early travel books
The man in the white suit
Mark Twain conquered almost every challenge that came his way except old age. Living well into his seventies, he was…
Jesmyn Ward sees dead people
The events of this book take place where the world of the living and the world of the dead rub…
United States: Deep South, full strength
Explore Mississippi and the Delta before they’re rebranded, says James Walton
Pastoral scene of the gallant South
During the first ten pages of this long work Paul Theroux, on a journey through the American South, meets two…
