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

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.

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 ...

“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 2024 novel “James” is an important book, especially for those who want to expand their thinking about Mark ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

Renowned author Percival Everett’s celebrated new novel James (2024) reimagines the escape of the enslaved character “Jim” from Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) canonical American classic, Adventures of ...

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?