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Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, including hardcover and paperback ...

Some state Democrats are pushing a new bill they call the “Don’t Ban Library Books Act.” Supporters of the bill say that it ...

Not only that but Levy’s promised the first 500 boys and girls who showed up at its store that Saturday morning would get ...

9 WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS (Berkley, $30). By Grady Hendrix. The young women at a home for unwed mothers find power using witchcraft. 10 ALL FOURS (Riverhead, $29). By Miranda July. A woman ...

It Happened in Hartford” honors the happy home life the Twains experienced in Hartford with a museum exhibit and walking tour ...

The League of Women Voters Whitewater Area’s Book Club is hosting the first of three discussions of the book “James: A Novel,” by Percival Everett, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, starting ...

Percival Everett’s “James” is up for another literary award — the PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction. Other nominees include Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red,” Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” ...

Percival Everett’s novel, James, is the best I’ve read in years, and I almost didn’t read it because its first 5 pages are printed ...

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, ...