The mystery writer S.A. Cosby picks some of his favorite tales of the human monsters that wait for us in the dark.

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Percival Everett’s novel, James, is the best I’ve read in years, and I almost didn’t read it because its first 5 pages are printed ...

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Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

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On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...

The League of Women Voters Whitewater Area’s Book Club is hosting the first of three discussions of the book “James: A Novel,” by Percival Everett, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, starting ...

Jordan Finn, Jenna Schatzman (Austin Neave), Jacob Schatzman, and James Finn Kincaid; and great-grandchildren, Zoey, Hallie, and Damien Finn, Joshua and Dean Finn, and Lotus and Arlo Neave. She is ...

Everett gives James the gift of language, and James writes his account of his travels with a stolen pencil stub—one which ...