Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Percival Everett refashions a Mark Twain classic.

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.

The enigma of Samuel Clemens.

Most countries take their popular novelists more seriously than America has. The term “Great American Novel” was literally invented to describe this book

On Percival Everett’s “James.”

The great American writer witnessed the forging of his nation – but Ron Chernow’s portrait cannot see beyond its subject.

Digital archiving is shoddy and incomplete, and it will hamper the ability of future generations to understand the current era.

Mark Twain would be hopelessly out of favor with both wings of the modern duopoly.

St. Paul and Minneapolis have a history as long, deep, and twisted as the Mississippi River.

In his later years, the famous writer surrounded himself with a bevy of adoring adolescents.

“I am frightened by the proportions of my prosperity,” Twain said. “It seems to me that whatever I touch turns to gold.”