... this as an indication that white support for Black Lives Matter was only ever fickle and thin. In May 2020 Percival Everett published a novel that contests the reduction of activist sentiment to social outcomes. Telephone tells the story of a Black man, Zach Wells, who struggles to come to terms with his daughter's...

... a politics of the street. Kinohi Nishikawa, for instance, identifies “the structure of feeling associated with the summer of 2020”—shock, grief, anger, frustration, exhaustion, loss—running through Percival Everett's Telephone , a novel published by Graywolf Press in Minneapolis just weeks before Floyd's...

... innovation, this question powers an array of critically acclaimed novels dealing with race and ethnicity, by authors including Paul Beatty, Michael Chabon, Ted Chiang, Junot Díaz, Percival Everett, Sesshu Foster, Jeffrey Eugenides, Mat Johnson, Edward Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth...