Percival Everett spoke with Dan White, Humanities Writer at UC Santa Cruz, about the creation of his 2024 National Book Award ...

Mark Twain, Introductory Note to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway declared ... I heard that word or watched the class laugh at Jim. . . ." Champions of the novel reply that it ...

The fog scene, in which Jim upbraids Huck for playing a cruel trick on him and elicits an apology, Fishkin points out, is a ...

This along with the racial stereotypes of Black people, to provide humor at the expense of Jim, has led some to argue that ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is a racist book. However ...

Other whites show badly in comparison as Jim teaches Huck not mere tolerance ... its primary object is development of the free mind. Since Huckleberry Finn serves that object well, ignorance ...

In the original, Jim is a runaway slave and erstwhile companion to the mischievous young Huck during his adventures along the Mississippi. Loyal, credulous, and mystically wise, Twain’s Jim is ...

The passing of Val Kilmer hit me harder than I thought. I never met the guy, but his films have followed me my whole life.

[Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim fall in with a pair of low-grade con artists. One fancies ...

An English professor from Auburn University has “sanitized” Mark Twain’s masterpiece by replacing all 219 uses of the word “nigger” with “slave.” From our morning news briefing to a ...

Possum Point Players' Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tickets are available now ... lesson of friendship like that of Huck and Jim and may we teach this to our children and our ...