Sixty years after Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man was published, we still haven’t woken up from the national nightmare he describes. Nathaniel Rich on its terrifying vision. “I recognize no ...

Click here to R.S.V.P. to a virtual conversation about “Invisible Man,” to be led by Adam Bradley and held on June 17. I first saw Ralph Ellison when I was 19 years old and he had already ...

For a generation marked by civil rights battles, the arrival of Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man in 1952 signaled a new chapter in how people of color were depicted in literature. Ellison’s ...

March 1, 2014 would have been Ralph Waldo Ellison’s 100th ... I invite you to seize the occasion of Ellison’s 100th birthday to read “Invisible Man.” Or reread it. It takes a little ...

"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who ... through traditional narratives — are all themes that Ralph Ellison brought to his work." His father died at the age of 39 after ...

Looking for guidance, I picked up Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, “Invisible Man,” which had been a fixture of the “next to read” pile on my bookshelf for years. “I am invisible ...

“I am an invisible man.” So begins the most important book on American race relations since “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” published 50 years ago ...

Ralph Ellison’s novel “Invisible Man” has been banned from school libraries in Randolph County, N.C. The book is considered by many to be an masterful novel dealing with race in America.

Ralph Ellison is most famous for two things: writing the classic Invisible Man and never publishing another novel during his lifetime. The story of his supposed writer’s block has become almost ...

One of the great mysteries of 20 th-century literary history is why Ralph Ellison never completed the highly anticipated second novel that he worked on for four decades after Invisible Man was ...

“Invisible Man” makes overt demands on its readers ... s Wrong With the American Novel.” In the symposium, Ralph Ellison remarked that “I just feel that we are called upon to do a big ...

Fans of the celebrated American novelist Ralph Ellison will soon have a chance to view the Invisible Man author through an entirely new lens. The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust has ...