Asked how it’s changed his approach or future plans, he compared it to an article of clothing. “It’s like one day finally ... my exercise of finding a way to hate it, I closed Huck Finn and still have ...

It's a ripe time for a major Twain biography too, after Percival Everett's James (a re-telling of Twain's Huck Finn from the point ... popular culture went beyond clothes.

It's a ripe time for a major Twain biography too, after Percival Everett's James (a re-telling of Twain's Huck Finn from the point of view of Jim ... Which is to say, his influence on popular culture ...

It’s a ripe time for a major Twain biography too, after Percival Everett’s James (a re-telling of Twain’s Huck Finn from the point of view of ... his influence on popular culture went beyond clothes.

Earlier this year, Percival Everett’s slyly satirical “ James” imagined what would happen if Jim from “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was ... striped clothes) who discovers the ...

It’s a ripe time for a major Twain biography too, after Percival Everett’s James (a re-telling of Twain’s Huck Finn from the point of view of ... his influence on popular culture went beyond clothes.

Ancient oaks frame a classic Southern fountain scene—the kind of spot where you half expect to see Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn plotting their next adventure ... the third one causes spontaneous clothing ...

Catfish Lake at the Lodge: This unassuming exterior hides a catfish paradise that would make Huckleberry Finn hang up his fishing pole ... It’s the kind of place where you can show up in your everyday ...

“The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to Grief” (1865): The title says it all. Twain wanted to contrast the child in his story to typical Sunday School stories where dire consequences ...

Is that censorship? Or is it showing sensitivity? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is perhaps the best example of how the battle lines can shift over what young readers should and ...

“Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huck- leberry Finn’s Comrade,” by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Yale University Press, 447 pp. $28. “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark ...