An English professor from Auburn University has “sanitized” Mark Twain’s masterpiece by replacing all 219 uses of the word “nigger” with “slave.” From our morning news briefing to a ...

Mark Twain, Introductory Note to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway declared that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." ...

Illustration by E. W. Kemble, from first edition of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' 1884. [Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Everett’s novel James, a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, places Jim at the middle of the narrative, just as it tears the story apart from the center. In the original, Jim is a ...

“I have no liking for novels or stories,” Mark Twain once wrote—and ... Friend can be found in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Gribben says Twain “read and annotated every popular book ...

Mark Twain, of course, would be sympathetic ... length in the California Press’ 2001 edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A longstanding myth surrounding this founding work of vernacular ...

No need to stop to see whether you can come up with the answer, because it's too obvious: Samuel Clemens created the cherished celebrity known as Mark Twain as surely and craftily as he created Huck ...

A casting crisis threatened a theater’s production of a Mark Twain classic after a diversity workaround proved problematic. Despite the inherent pretend nature of theater and similar […] ...

USC professor Percival Everett wins the National Book Award for Fiction for 'James,' a retelling of 'Huckleberry Finn' from the character Jim's point of view.

The second book for the 2025 Louisiana Inspired Book Club is "James," by Percival Everett, a twist on the classic Mark Twain novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." This work of fiction ...