This week, Publishers Weekly reported that a coming edition of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” will omit racially-sensitive language, like the n-word, which it will replace with the word slave. We asked award-winning novelist, poet and critic Ishmael Reed to offer his take on the story. Note: Some of the language in this essay is just the kind of thing that some folks are trying to edit out of Mark Twain’s books.
