Book

James

Percival Everett

2024

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Longread

Twain Dreams

The enigma of Samuel Clemens.

by John Jeremiah Sullivan via Harper’s on April 29, 2025
Book Review

Kierkegaard on the Mississippi

Percival Everett refashions a Mark Twain classic.

by Zain Khalid via Bookforum on July 2, 2024
Book Review

Gulp Fiction, or Into the Missouri-verse

On Percival Everett’s “James.”

by Matt Seybold via Cleveland Review of Books on March 25, 2024
Book Review

"James" Is a Retelling of "Huckleberry Finn" that America Desperately Needs

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

by Jarvis Deberry via MSNBC on March 19, 2024
Book Review

A Bloody Retelling of 'Huckleberry Finn'

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

by Tyler Austin Harper via The Atlantic on March 12, 2024

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