“Pym,” by Mat Johnson is a blisteringly funny satire of contemporary American racial attitudes — which is quite an accomplishment when you consider that most of the novel is set in the wilds of ...

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is the Voynich manuscript of American literature. As the only novel written by Edgar Allan Poe, its historical importance is unquestionable; as a ...

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Mat Johnson's book Pym is a modern-day sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Poe's 1838 novel is a seafaring adventure in which Pym and his crew land ...

Why should today’s readers check out an 1838 book about an American man’s increasingly bizarre and terrifying journey to the South Pole? Nathan Wolff and Joseph Rezek, local academics who contributed ...

“Pym” (Spiegal & Grau, $24), by Mat Johnson: A swiftly paced satire, Mat Johnson’s “Pym” skewers Edgar Allan Poe, race in America, the snack-food industry, academia, landscape painting and abominable ...

Hats off, please, to Mat Johnson, author of this wonderful, black-humored novel — part social satire, part meditation on race in America, part metafiction and, just as important, a rollicking fantasy ...

If all you think of when you think of Edgar Allan Poe are poems like "The Raven," or tales of terror like "The Fall of the House of Usher," you might not realize that ...