Nigger

Censoring Mark Twain

Arts, Culture & Media

The Takeaway discusses the significance of removing the “n word” from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The World

Huck Finn Mailbag

Global Politics

Huck Finn, Hold the ‘N’

Huck Finn Mailbag

Huck Finn, Hold the ‘N’

Huck Finn Mailbag

On last week’s show Kurt talked to Alan Gribben, the Twain scholar who, in a new edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, replaces all instances of the word “nigger” with “slave”. Their conversation generated a lot of response from listeners, and this week Kurt reads a few of the comments.