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 ...

That’s a pivotal moment in Huck Finn because it has to be. This is where these characters are being led. And likewise, as I inhabit this world, I had to come to some point like that myself.

INTRODUCTION. Play the following video clip that offers an introduction to the book including the characters of Huck Finn, a runaway adolescent, and Jim, an escaped slave, and their journey on the ...

But it’s not the only reinterpretation of the Huck Finn mythos to come out in the past year. “Big Jim and the White Boy” is a graphic novel from writer David F. Walker and Capital Region ...

In his 2024 National Book Award-winning novel, 'James,' Percival Everett grapples with philosophical and metaphysical questions as well as racial issues, while enveloping all in sarcasm and irony.

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 ...

Neither warning worked out that well. Huck Finn is one of the most celebrated books in American literature. First published in 1884, it's about a ragamuffin boy who fakes his death and runs away ...

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" By Jim Shahen Jr ...

Huckleberry Finn gets trigger warning for university students over character's use of the N-word. Exeter University has put a 'trigger warning' on Mark Twain's best-known novel ...