As a boy growing up in North Carolina, Richard P. Burton Sr. remembers being required to read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and being offended by the repeated use of the word “nigger.”. Now, as ...
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of America’s greatest works of literature—and one of its most problematic. Contemporary writer Percival Everett provides a new path into the book’s ...