Percival Everett

The enigma of Samuel Clemens.

Percival Everett refashions a Mark Twain classic.

On Percival Everett’s “James.”

It puts the people in the most peril in the center of the story: the people being systematically exploited, chained, whipped and raped.

Percival Everett transforms Mark Twain’s classic 'Huckleberry Finn' into a tragedy.

Cartoons have often been considered exempt from the country’s prejudices. In fact, they form a genre built on the marble and mud of racial signification.