D. S. Carne-Ross

4 weeks ago | newcriterion.com | Heather Mac Donald |Joseph Epstein |Douglas Murray |D. S. Carne-Ross

Recent stories of note:“‘Mark Twain’ review: The Most American Writer”Jay Parini, The Wall Street JournalMark Twain, in almost every image of him, sports a voluminous head of hair, thick eyebrows whose strands extend over an inch, and an unmissable mustache framing his stern-looking mouth. Writing for The Wall Street Journal that “almost everything about Twain seems exaggerated as well as true,” Jay Parini does not refer to Twain’s hair, of course, but the statement applies all the same.