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A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

Once a mainstay of school curricula, in recent years “Huckleberry Finn” has fallen out of favour. The book is “banned from most American secondary schools”, Mr Chernow writes ...

Chernow’s “Mark Twain” is well worth that length to learn more about the author best known for introducing readers to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Chernow’s book aptly portrays Twain ...

Capable of great hatred and great empathy, by turns explosive and thoughtful, Twain at 60 had written the books for which we most remember him: novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn ...

American author Percival Everett's novel James, his radical reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for ...

Percival Everett's novel James, his radical re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

The New Yorker earned its trio for feature reporting, audio reporting and commentary ... a reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” through the eyes of the enslaved Jim.

He broke through to a larger audience with Erasure, a widely praised book that was adapted into the satirical ... Everett knew that he would amplify a theme in Huckleberry Finn that Twain introduces ...

a book that reoccupies and reimagines Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved character Jim. In anticipation of his visit to UC Santa Cruz, Everett talked with White about ...

What poses a greater threat to the book publishing industry ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is perhaps the best example of how the battle lines can shift over what young ...