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Never the Twain Shall Meet?

Never the Twain Shall Meet?

What to do when critics clash

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May 17, 2025
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I spent two days recently force-marching my way through Ron Chernow’s 1200-page new biography of Mark Twain, and although the whole thing is a conscientious and fairly readable, it left me with a distinct hankering for reading something else, almost anything else.

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