This month we are looking at two takes on a classic. We'll subread Twain's American masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and we'll follow that with our main read, Percival Everett's ambitious re-invisioning of the novel, James. Let's see what we learn from two different versions of such a powerful story.

We're sorry to say this, but this follow-up to Orange's powerful There There is just not worth the read. Orange is a great writer in places, but this book lacks anything beyond a very flimsy throughline to explain the time jumps and different stories and all of the modern storytelling just loses the thread of what Orange is actually good at depicting.

A general vote of confidence for Kushner's new novel from all readers. While we do wish Kushner had not assumed we knew so much about critical theory, when we unpacked Creation Lake, we found it a well-written and interesting story about theories of revolution and the false narratives that fuel social movements.