Literature
In a season chock-full of "Top 2015" lists, from hottest celebrities to best political moments, we must not forget the literature that moved us
New editions of the Mark Twain book, “Huckleberry Finn” have taken out the “N-word” and replaced it with “slave.” Publisher’s weekly reports: Twain himself defined a “classic” as “a book which people praise and don’t read.” Rather than see Twain’s most important work succumb to that fate, Twain scholar Alan Gribben and NewSouth Books plan […]
From The Washington Post Walk through your local chain bookstore and you will not see sections tagged British Literature, White American Literature, Korean Literature, Pakistani Literature and so on. None of these ethnicities are singled out or objectified the way African American writers are. And while, yes, a vast majority of all writers, regardless of […]
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