A new book unpacks Jim in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" — a fictional enslaved Black man who is one of the most memorable characters in American Literature. Why it matters ...

Description. Named among the great American novels, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has been known internationally since its first printing in 1884 and remains popular yet controversial to this day.

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by Mark Twain is one of the cornerstones of American literature. "James," a new novel by Percival Everett, takes another look at the story and brings an ...

“James,” novelist Percival Everett’s retelling of “Huckleberry Finn,” which published Tuesday, not only makes the runaway the narrator, but it imagines him as a kind of Frederick ...

Percival Everett wins a National Book Award for the Huckleberry Finn-inspired epic ‘James’ Black Classic Press publisher W. Paul Coates, father of Ta-Nehisi Coates, also received a lifetime ...

Author Percival Everett Wins National Book Award For Reimagining ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Through Enslaved Character Jim’s Lens. Everett centers 'James' on the enslaved character Jim from Mark ...

Everett also tackles the issue of book bans across the country, Twain’s use of the n-word in his literature and why Everett believes “it belongs there.” Conversation recorded on Thursday ...

In part six of Books That Shaped America, Butler University Professor Andrew Levy explored [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn], authored by Mark Twain. The novel was first published in 1884 and is ...

Everett mines the humor in such logical convolutions, though the book’s tone is more muted than that of his jocular novel “The Trees,” from 2021, which features its own spate of lynchings.In ...