It's a radical retelling of an American classic. Portland writer David F. Walker joined us to share his amazing new graphic novel--"Big Jim and the White Boy"-- and why he felt it was important to ...

Marcus Kwame Anderson, seen at Earthworld Comics in Albany, collaborated with author David F. Walker on “Big Jim and the White Boy.” Marcus Kwame Anderson's illustrations in "Big Jim and the White Boy ...

When Everett thought of writing Jim’s side of Huck Finn, he was surprised that no one had ever delivered that story before. The two fugitives are separated for a long section of Twain’s novel, and ...

An enslaved man debates John Locke. A Black man pretends to be a white man in blackface to sing in a new minstrel show. In a fever dream of a retelling, the new reigning king of satire, Percival ...

As part of the NPR series, "In Character," we take a look at the enslaved character, Jim, in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Was he a... Was Jim of 'Huckleberry Finn' a Hero? As part of ...

Everyone should know the name Percival Everett by now. His “Also by Percival Everett” lists read like discographies, revealing more than 30 novels with resonant, sometimes playful titles such as “The ...

Percival Everett’s “James,” his thirty-fourth book, is a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1885). Like “American Fiction,” Cord Jefferson’s Oscar-winning film based on ...

Based on the classic book by Mark Twain, comes the story of the renowned young rascal: Huckleberry Finn. When Huck sets out on an adventure down the Mississippi River, he comes across a runaway slave ...

Walt Disney’s The Adventures of Huck Finn is a 1993 adaptation of the American classic novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The movie tells the story of the titular protagonist, Huck, ...

Aunt Polly isn't very young anymore when she takes her two nephews Tom and Sid Sawyer under her wing after their parents died. Tom doesn't like to go to school and is always full of mischief, his ...

In a fever dream of a retelling, America's new reigning king of satire has turned a loved classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, upside down,... An enslaved man debates John Locke. A Black man ...

Everyone should know the name Percival Everett by now. His “Also by Percival Everett” lists read like discographies, revealing more than 30 novels with resonant, sometimes playful titles such as “The ...