Mark Twain

The risk in clearing-houses: All clear?

Clearing-houses are meant to solve problems in derivatives markets. They create them, too(26)

Mark Twain's autobiography: Unexpurgated musings without a whitewash

He was wise to ensure the ants got to him before any new enemies did(0)

Sanitising Huckleberry Finn: There weren't any niggers, then

A debate about the removal of the 'n'-word from Mark Twain's masterpiece(29)

Links: Reading material

Letters: On Japan, private equity, nuclear power, vertical farming, morals, Social Security, mating behaviour, the euro

Who would have thought it?

Ideas welcome on the surprises in store for the worlds of style and culture(2)

Censorship: No sex please, we're American

The most controversial books in America(63)

Clinical depression: Something in the way he moves

Depressed people move in a mathematically different way from other people(0)

Genetics and smoking: Smoke and fire

Addiction to nicotine may be in the genes(0)

The wild west: 'Cross the wide Missouri

The costs and benefits of turning wilderness into wealth(0)

American letters: Close encounters

When artists meet, they do so much more than shake hands(0)

British exams: Who's been cheating?

Exams are about sorting the bright from the dim, not about demonstrating progress(0)

Cities and rivers: Come you back to michi-sipi

Northern rock

Injury inflation

Don’t always believe what you read in the papers(0)

Murder on Capitol Hill