Big Jim and White Boy also vividly embraces some of the more complex historical details of the setting. Between John Brown and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Missouri in the 1850s was a boiling point in ...

Walker and Anderson had a desire to show Huck and Jim’s experiences from the “perspective of the recipient of racism.” But even more than that, they sought to go beyond what happened in the ...

Local illustrator helps reimagine 'Huck Finn' tale through Jim's perspective Marcus Kwame Anderson worked with author David F. Walker on graphic novel "Big Jim and the White Boy" ...

Intertwined into the story of Jim and Huck are the stories of Jim's descendants in the 1930s, 1980s, and 2020s, making this a multigenerational family epic as well as an adventure story.

In "Big Jim and the White Boy," writer David Walker and illustrator Marcus Kwame Anderson have reimagined "Huckleberry Finn." They talk with NPR's Scott Simon about the new graphic novel.

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, placing Huck's enslaved companion Jim at the center.

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 ...

In Percival Everett's novel, Jim, or James, does in a voice that is knowing, funny, pained, and deeply humane, expanding the world Everett first found in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." ...

A. Even in “Huck Finn,” the only positive father figure — well, maybe Judge Thatcher, peripherally — that Huck has is Jim.

In Chapter 2 of James, the title character teaches his six children how to speak to white people—how to speak like Jim in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. “Why do we talk differently for them?

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 ...

Books Entertainment Forget Huck Finn. New novel tells us what Jim thought on the Mississippi March 25, 2024 at 6:00 am “James,” by Percival Everett. (Doubleday) ...