Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Although Patterson has published over 200 books, this list ...

This spring, Percival Everett spoke with Dan White, Humanities Writer at UC Santa Cruz, about the creation of his 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James, a book that reoccupies and reimagines ...

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of America’s greatest works of literature—and one of its most problematic. Contemporary writer Percival Everett provides a new path into the book’s ...