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Percival Everett’s latest novel James is a retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, focusing on the enslaved Black side character Jim, who temporarily accompanies Huckleberry Finn on his adventures in the original story. In his novel, Everett gives Jim the opportunity to tell his own story.
more...Chude-Sokei explores the historical connections between race and technology. He looks back to the time of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people and works his way through various historical stages to current issues surrounding artificial intelligence.
more...Honorée Fanonne Jeffer’s first novel The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is extensive and demanding: The family history of the African American Ailey Pearl Garfield is traced back over several generations and reveals complicated family entanglements that are consequences of settler colonialism and enslavement.
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