Forty-three years ago this month, libraries around the country observed the first Banned Books Week. Its co-founder, Judith Krug, was the director of the American Library Association’s Office for ...

Percival Everett has breathed fierce life into one of American literature's iconic characters in James, a retelling of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the runaway slave. But language is ...

“If one knows hell as home,” Percival Everett’s Jim asks, “Is returning to hell a homecoming?” Everett’s novel James, a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, places Jim at the middle of the ...

Everyone should know the name Percival Everett by now. His “Also by Percival Everett” lists read like discographies, revealing more than 30 novels with resonant, sometimes playful titles such as “The ...

HUCK OUT WEST, by Robert Coover. W.W. Norton & Co., 308 pp., $26.95. To borrow the deathless opening line of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”: You can enjoy Robert Coover’s new novel, “Huck Out West,” ...