Summer is the perfect time for reading and chatting about books. For this summer's book club selection, "James," Louisiana Inspired is turning off the camera and microphone and giving the discussion ...

America's best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry and travel writings, but is rarely thought of as a political thinker and ...

Chernow noted the irony that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “the greatest anti-slavery novel in the ... about 200 times—not to endorse racism but to expose the racism of Huck and the other white ...

He then returns to the town of Hannibal, which he calls St. Petersburg in Huck Finn. And far and away the ... what he really felt about politics and religion and other things, that he would ...

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature and life, despite his failings ...

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and Huck Finn is his masterpiece of satire. Huck’s naive observations about slavery, religion, and adults reveal the ridiculousness of 19th-century society—often in laugh-out-loud ways.

“When religion, coming from your lips & his ... Chernow mounts a nuanced defense of Huck Finn, including its representation of the escaped slave, Jim. “Whatever the shortcomings of Twain ...

“Religion is just a controlling tool they employ and adhere to when convenient…. There might be a higher power, children, but it’s not their white God.” In Twain’s book, Huck Finn has a ...

Huck and James encounter many of the same characters I recognized from “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” I’m delighted to report that the con men from Twain’s original brought their ...