James” is a retelling of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told from the perspective of Jim, an enslaved man determined to reunite with his family.

In 2022, Everett was on the shortlist of the Booker Prize for The Trees (Influx Press) and this year, too, he is on the longlist with James. Through James, Everett is giving a nod to Mark Twain ...

Percival Everett claims he is not as brilliant as his fans know him to be. He deeply researches the worlds in which his novels are set, yet swears that everything he learns falls out of his head ...

Everett’s work grapples with philosophical and metaphysical questions as well as racial issues, while enveloping all in sarcasm and irony. It often makes for difficult reading. In James ...

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Renowned author Percival Everett’s celebrated new novel “James” (2024) reimagines the escape of the enslaved character “Jim” from Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) canonical American classic, “Adventures ...

Percival Everett’s “James,” one of the year’s most acclaimed novels, added to its laurels on Wednesday night, taking home the prize for fiction at the 75th National Book Awards ceremony in ...

In his new novel James, Everett reminds us of the thorny absurdity that is U.S. history. Screen still from the 1960 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain loved blackface. In his autobiography ...

In the hands of any other writer, James might have collapsed, but Everett doesn’t leverage his fiction to critique. Instead, he pokes fun at the powerful and compels them to laugh along with him.