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

His latest novel, James, is a reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of the enslaved ...

Ron Chernow’s exceptional biography devours the life’s work of Mark Twain, the perfect American writer who lived an imperfect ...

Also on the New York Times hardcover list for the week ended May 10: new fiction by Fredrik Backman and several others.

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Irsay started with the Colts as a teenage ball boy and took ownership after his father's death in 1997. The team won a Super ...

"James," by Percival Everett, the second book for the 2025 Louisiana Inspired Book Club, has won the Pulitzer Prize for ...

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

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 ...

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 ...