January 1996 Issue [Criticism] Say It Ain’t So, Huck Download PDF Adjust Share Second thoughts on Mark Twain’s “masterpiece” by Jane Smiley, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 19th century 20th century American fiction History and criticism Mark Twain More from Jane Smiley New Books The title of Margaret Drabble’s new novel, The Pure Gold Baby (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26), refers to “Lady Lazarus,” a poem Sylvia Plath wrote a few months before she committed… New Books At the end of a chapter on Livia, the wife of the Roman emperor Augustus, in Confronting the Classics (Liveright, $28.95), the Cambridge scholar Mary Beard reminds us that when… New Books The memoir is a tempting but treacherous form. As the English novelist Rachel Cusk writes in Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $20), “Unclothed, truth can be… Adjust Share