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

Welcome back, book lovers! It’s time for another installment of the First for Women Book Club, where we share eight books ...

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 ...

Riding a wave of literary celebrity on the heels of winning the Pulitzer Prize for his subversive novel James, Percival Everett strode across the stage and was met with a brand of jubilation and ...

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

Beyond the journalism categories, Percival Everett received a Pulitzer for the novel “James,” a reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” through the eyes of the enslaved Jim.

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 ...

Stepping into Huckleberry Finn’s world, Percival Everett has written Jim into being. Mark Twain’s celebrated but controversial novel of 1884, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is the story of ...

John T. Lewis, in many ways, became the model for Jim in Twain’s great work "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." On Aug. 23, 1877, “Old Lewis” performed a “miracle.” Ida Langdon ...

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 ...