That would be James by Percival Everett, hands down. Everett’s brilliant bestselling story won the 2024 Kirkus Prize and the ...

Only one of the 13 titles nominated for the prestigious award for fiction translated into English is more than 300 pages long ...

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Mississippi’s lieutenant governor collapsed on the floor of the state Senate. Video from the Senate chamber showed Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann standing at a podium Wednesday at the front of ...

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Cusk, an acclaimed British novelist and essayist, spoke to Yale students on Thursday evening in the basement of the ...

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

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” ...

The award honours the best published works of fiction by American permanent residents in a calendar year. Other longlisted nominees include The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich, Creation Lake by Rachel ...