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 ...

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) ...

Finn 's key moment is when Huck declares he'll help Jim even if it means going to hell, but Everett reminds us that Jim is already there. James tells another man he was "born in hell.

Author Percival Everett joins Morning Joe to discuss his new novel 'James,' which is a re-telling of Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' from the perspective of Huck's companion, runaway ...

My Jim (Crown, $19.95) is Nancy Rawles's answer to Huckleberry Finn. Where Mark Twain celebrates Huck's voice, Rawles celebrates the voice of Sadie Watson, the woman who was left behind in slavery ...

Huck Finn and Jim set out from Hannibal, Mo. on a July afternoon in 1835 aboard a raft. But this is not Mark Twain's tale: In Norman Lock's brief and brilliant fabulist novel The Boy in His Winter ...

Indeed, Huck's own moral growth is a function of his affection and respect for Jim. Other whites show badly in comparison as Jim teaches Huck not mere tolerance, but love.

There is more irony in D.J. Tice's column ("At least keep these two books as part of your personal curriculum," Feb. 18) than the famous passage he quotes from "Huck Finn" or than Boo Radley being ...

Review: Forget Huck Finn. Novel ‘James’ tells us what Jim thought on the Mississippi March 20, 2024Updated Wed., March 20, 2024 at 2:13 p.m. “James,” by Percival Everett (Doubleday) By ...

Huck Finn and Jim set out from Hannibal, Mo. on a July afternoon in 1835 aboard a raft. But this is not Mark Twain's tale: In Norman Lock's brief and brilliant fabulist novel The Boy in His Winter ...