“Religion is just a controlling tool they employ and adhere to when convenient…. There might be a higher power, children, but it’s not their white God.” In Twain’s book, Huck Finn has a ...

Huck Finn, however, was more than just a fictional figure forged from the imagination of a great writer and wit. Huckleberry was a real-life, hardscrabble, all-American boy. His name was Tom ...

the novel is centered around Huck Finn, a young boy from Missouri, who lives with his two women, widow Douglas, and Miss Watson, who are trying to teach him about religion and manners. Soon ...

“James: A Novel” is a reimagining of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved Black man who befriends Huck and who Finn seeks to help escap ...

“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” the critic Lionel Trilling wrote ... it twisted down the Mississippi River were largely, from Huck’s perspective, larks. From Jim’s — excuse me ...

You can hear that stress prefigured at the end of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” when Huck admits, “If I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it.” ...

Twain wrote Huck Finn in region-, race- and even age-specific dialect and pushed back on critics who found the language objectionable by explaining each dialect contained was researched with ...

“James” is a reimaging — re-imagining of “Huckleberry Finn,” usurping Mark Twain’s protagonist to put Jim, Huck’s enslaved sidekick at its center. Everett joins Walter Isaacson to ...

Taika Waititi is being eyed to direct the “Huck Finn” reimagining from the author of “Erasure,” the book behind Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” "James" book cover, Steven ...