Jane Smiley is the author, most recently, of “Private Life,” a novel. Updated December 19, 2011, 5:30 PM Literature — novels, plays, and poems — can have an uncanny dual life, where they ...

Two New Jersey lawmakers are trying to get the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” removed from curricula. Mark Twain’s raw and uncensored 1880s book centers on a young boy, Huckleberry Finn and his ...

Mark Twain defined a classic as "a book which people praise and don't read." And for years, the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has fit that category, removed from school reading lists across the ...

On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...

ATLANTA - Mark Twain defined a classic as "a book which people praise and don't read." These days a lot of schools are not reading one of his classics, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," because it ...

As part of the NPR series, "In Character," we take a look at the enslaved character, Jim, in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — one of the most controversial novels in American literature.

Everett centers 'James' on the enslaved character Jim from Mark Twain's 1884 picaresque novel. Percival Everett’s acclaimed reimagining of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn won the ...

BIANNA GOLODRYGA, SENIOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST: Well, now, our next guest is making a splash in popular culture. The work of Percival Everett was plunged into the spotlight when his novel, “Erasure,” ...