Samuel Clemens, who took the steamboating term “Mark Twain” as his pen name, knew the Mississippi was a deadly river to navigate. But it feels like a tranquil brook next to the tumultuous waters of ...

Although sometimes criticized for its grammatical errors, vulgarities and racial epithets, Mark Twain’s 1885 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn inspired worldwide praise and numerous spin-offs, ...

Last month, the novel “James” by Percival Everett won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The story is a bold reimagining of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told from the perspective of ...

“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” the critic Lionel Trilling wrote, is “one of the world’s great books and one of the central documents of American culture,” in part because it grows with its readers.

Very few characters in American history have captured the American zeitgeist like Tom Sawyer. First published in 1876, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer quickly became a household novel that ...

Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” published in 1884, is sometimes banned because of its constant use of the horrific term “nigger,” yet it is the least racist book imaginable.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This video offers an overview of this book including the characters of Huck Finn, a runaway adolescent, and Jim, an escaped slave, and their journey ...

“James,” in a sense, reprises the same linguistic drag in reverse. Early in the novel, we learn that Jim’s famous eye dialect from “Huckleberry Finn” is, in Everett’s telling, a strategic form of code ...

In "Big Jim and the White Boy," writer David Walker and illustrator Marcus Kwame Anderson have reimagined "Huckleberry Finn." They talk with NPR's Scott Simon about the new graphic novel. Mark Twain's ...

Acclaimed novelist Percival Everett will step onto the stage of the Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz next month for a highly anticipated conversation with Professor Vilashini Cooppan as part of ...