Percival Everett’s Philosophical Twist on “Huckleberry Finn”

[ad_1] Percival Everett’s novels seem to ward off the lazier hermeneutics of literary criticism, yet they also have a way of dangling the analytical ropes with which we critics hang ourselves. His latest novel follows the misadventures of a runaway named Jim and his young companion Huckleberry in the antebellum American South. As in another… Continue reading Percival Everett’s Philosophical Twist on “Huckleberry Finn”

3 Body Problem Gave John Bradley the Big Twist GoT Didn’t

[ad_1] “As a device and a plot point, I completely get it, and as an acting challenge, I welcomed it.” Photo: Ed Miller/Netflix Spoilers ahead for 3 Body Problem. Despite being known for playing bookish geeks in genre fare, most famously Samwell Tarly in Game of Thrones, John Bradley is not actually into that sort… Continue reading 3 Body Problem Gave John Bradley the Big Twist GoT Didn’t