A new book unpacks Jim in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" — a fictional enslaved Black man who is one of ...

Jim, or James, does in a voice that is knowing, funny, pained, and deeply humane, expanding the world Everett first found in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." PERCIVAL EVERETT: I read an ...

In "Big Jim and the White Boy," writer David Walker and illustrator Marcus Kwame Anderson have reimagined "Huckleberry Finn." They talk with NPR's Scott Simon about the new graphic novel.

Everett, an English professor in California, dared to re-write “Huckleberry Finn” to focus upon Jim, rather than upon Huckleberry. In one sobering scene, Everett places Jim, or James ...

In Chapter 2 of James, the title character teaches his six children how to speak to white people—how to speak like Jim in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. “Why do we talk differently for them?

Sadly, 30 years ago some parents were trying to keep “Huckleberry Finn” away from the children. Because of Jim. Or, more specifically, because of the word Twain’s characters most often use ...

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by Mark Twain is one of the cornerstones ... and an enslaved Black man named Jim running for his life. Huck told the story in Mark Twain's 1884 novel.

Percival Everett’s “James,” his thirty-fourth book, is a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry ... in favor of Jim’s. Everett’s revision of “Huck Finn” translates ...

The seminal storyline of "Huckleberry Finn" was his relationship with the slave Jim. Their meeting on Jackson Island is based on a real-life event, when Tom Blankenship's older brother ...

As part of the NPR series, "In Character," we take a look at the enslaved character, Jim, in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Was he a... Was Jim of 'Huckleberry Finn' a Hero?

Early in the novel, we learn that Jim’s famous eye dialect from “Huckleberry Finn” is, in Everett’s telling, a strategic form of code-switching: the enslaved have dumbed down their speech ...