Everett plays it for gentle comedy at first — recounting a prank ... infuriating ending to “Huckleberry Finn” — you know the one, where Huck and Jim end up back on dry land, and Tom ...

Ultimately a comedy tied around the neck of a slave, “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” delivers the sparkle of the mighty Mississippi but the emotional depth of a brackish ...

condemned “Huckleberry Finn” as “trash ... It’s a merciless comedy about lynching — something I wouldn’t have thought possible before I read it in one wincing day.

Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic “Huckleberry Finn ... Oscar-winning 2023 comedy “American ...

In 'Big Jim and the White Boy,' a Mark Twain classic gets a graphic novel twist : NPR's Book of the Day Since its publication in 1885, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been celebrated as one of ...