In an interview with Tony Norman, Percival Everett expressed surprise that there weren’t previous attempts to flip the script ...

He spoke for many of the book's critics when he wrote, in a 1982 Washington Post editorial, "The reading aloud of Huck Finn in our classrooms is humiliating and insulting to black students.

National Book Award-winning novel, 'James,' Percival Everett grapples with philosophical and metaphysical questions as well ...

Discover the next Inspired Book Club selection, an updated reimagining of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." ...

Is a book like this something that just came to ... work do we miss with our rush to respectability? The importance of Huck ...

Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic “Huckleberry Finn.” Published in March to widespread critical ...

This retelling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn comes from the point of view ... scared — and the stakes are much higher for him than for Huck, something that could get lost ...

many citing the book’s repetition of the word “nigger.” Others simply state that Huck Finn “conflicted with the values of the community.” Jocelyn A. Chadwick began her career as a ...