If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.

Superman director and DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn is featured on a new variant cover for this May's Superman Unlimited #1, ...

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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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Exploring power, scandal, crime, and privilege, it’s a state-of-the-nation novel for our ... of Huckleberry Finn couldn’t be in better hands than with Percival Everett. Told from the enslaved Jim’s ...

Finn Carlin is a weekday morning reporter with ... The St. Johns County School District is not adding six more books to its list of more than 60 it says have been removed from schools.

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 ...