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All of life is here. ‘Here’ being the colourful world of German-born British painter and printmaker Walter Sickert (1860-1942). More specifically, here in

Amplifying Atlanta

Brown is also returning to television. “Iron Chef” is getting a reboot on Netflix starting June 15.

Mark Twain conquered almost every challenge that came his way except old age. Living well into his seventies, he was a printer, an investigative journalist, a riverboat captain, a government functionary, a bestselling novelist, an imperialism-defying political essayist, a successful playwright and a devoted father and husband. He travelled the world giving lectures that made

When Credibility Matters

To call Gary Scharnhorst’s three-volume biography of Mark Twain monumental is an understatement. With the publication of the third volume, The Life of Mark Twain: The Final Years, 1891-1910, Scharnhorst, distinguished professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico, has completed the most comprehensive biography of the American author ever written. Twain has been the subject of nearly 100 biographies, but not since his official biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, published his thre...

Gregory A. Daddis’ profile on The Conversation

Alton Brown, a TV personality, food show presenter, chef and author, will perform a culinary variety show Tuesday at The Kravis Center.