Character sketches in songs are hard enough to pull off. Craig Finn manages it and adds suspense in "Sarah, Calling From A Hotel".

Illustrator Marcus Kwame Anderson worked with author David F. Walker on graphic novel “Big Jim and the White Boy.” ...

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature and life, despite his failings ...

Early on in the composition of James, Everett knew that he would amplify a theme in Huckleberry Finn that Twain introduces yet elides – Jim’s role as a father figure to Huck. “ It’s present in Twain’s ...

Telling the story of the two main characters of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim ... will sum up the meaning of the novel and add to the themes that Everett expresses through the central character.

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 ...

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 ...

Everett's breezy, fast-moving retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is about putting in some due respect. James, shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, is a play of ...

Themes of family, loss, perseverance and triumph – as well as some awesome rowing scenes – help create a sports story that is both moving and inspirational. This is a gripping, emotional read.

Years later, T.S. Eliot would write about the poetry he found in “Huckleberry Finn,” and identified the two themes that explained Twain’s creativity: “the Boy and the River.” Eliot said that Huck was ...