Tag: Percival Everett

  • Fiction Review: Adam Camiolo Reads Percival Everett’s New Novel James

    Fiction Review: Adam Camiolo Reads Percival Everett’s New Novel James

    I am a man who is cognizant of his world, who has been torn from his family, a man who can read and write, a man who will not let his story be self-related but self-written. With my pencil, I wrote myself into being. James, the titular character of Percival Everett’s twenty-fourth novel, writes these…

  • Dr. No, a satirical spy novel by Percival Everett, reviewed by Adam Camiolo

    Dr. No, a satirical spy novel by Percival Everett, reviewed by Adam Camiolo

    Dr. No, the satirical spy novel by Percival Everett, is uncommonly funny, ridiculously smart, and has a serious score to settle. It is, in short, quite good. The book follows the misadventures of Professor Wala Kitu, a theoretical mathematician whose name is Tagalog and Swahili respectively for Nothing Nothing. Wala specializes in Nothing, an abstract…