All, As a subscriber to the New Yorker, I was surprised to see the article Arian ne refers to in her note. And after reading the article, I was a little puzzled by why the magazine chose to run it. Are they so out of good material that they need to dredge the lesser writing of a famous author, hoping that in his name they can increase sales? I found the article itself to be almost cryptic in some of its references to work that he was doing but was not going to let be published in his lifetime. Or was the point of publishing it that Mark Twain was literally speaking from the grave and was taunting the reader with his freedom to say what was on his mind, but then chose not to do so. As I recall, his writing in and around 1905 was fairly outspoken: King Leopold's Soliloquy; The Czar's Solioquy, among others.I'd like to hear what others think about this piece. Best, Sandra Littleton Uetz