Los Angeles-based American writer Percival Everett has written over 30 books. Through James, Everett is giving a nod to Mark Twain— “whose humour and humanity affected” him “long before became a writer” — by retelling the great American satirist’s 1884 novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In an interview in The Guardian, Everett said that Twain’s book’s great achievement is that …
Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel, cryptically called 4 3 2 1, the story of four lives, “made of the same genetic material.” In books, we read Salman Rushdie’s trauma memoir, Gurcharan Das on the perils of being a liberal in contemporary India, Percival …
After taking a stroll near Lewes in Sussex in 1932, Virginia Woolf wrote a striking phrase in her diary: “I want to walk, alone, and come to terms with my own head.” The quote appears as the epigraph to Harriet Baker’s Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner & Rosamond Lehmann. open image in gallery O’Hagan’s …
