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This summer's edition of is worth packing as holiday reading. Themed around the idea of "going back" - returning to a place, loved one and so on - there's a couple of stand-out articles.

writes about being brought up in Gloversville, USA. He mixes nostalgic yearnings for childhood with memories of the writer as a young man determined to escape a post-industrial glove-making town: a case of on the one hand...

And then there's the about his life on a farm. It shows it was at this time that Twain met Huck Finn. He had stipulated that it was not to be published until 100 years after his death - which turned out to be April 1910. The full autobiography is being published by the University of California Press in November.