Percival Everett's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "James," reimagines Huckleberry Finn from the slave's perspective. It explores language as power and survival, though the reviewer questions the ending's violence.

This review of Suzanne Collins's prequel, "Sunrise on the Reaping," follows Haymitch Abernathy's Hunger Games victory. It praises the social commentary but notes a lack of suspense and thin characterization.