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How Did Artists Survive the First Great Depression?

How Did Artists Survive the First Great Depression?

David A. Taylor on Art as Social Intervention

By David A. Taylor | June 29, 2020

Juneteenth">Read From Ralph Ellison's Novel, <emJuneteenth">

Juneteenth">Read From Ralph Ellison's Novel, Juneteenth

"Out of all the pain and the suffering, out of the night of storm, we found the Word of God."

By Ralph Ellison | June 19, 2020

An Alaska school board will keep classics on the curriculum after an uproar over their removal.

An Alaska school board will keep classics on the curriculum after an uproar over their removal.

By Corinne Segal | May 21, 2020

An Alaska school board's plan to take classics off the curriculum backfired (to say the least).

An Alaska school board's plan to take classics off the curriculum backfired (to say the least).

By Corinne Segal | April 28, 2020

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison's Two Inviolable Identities

must partake of blackness.”">“To become a true American a white American’s identity
must partake of blackness.”

By John F. Callahan | January 16, 2020

The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

John F. Callahan Looks at What Decades of Correspondence Can Reveal

By John F. Callahan | December 6, 2019

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Here are the 10 books you should read this week.

By Katie Yee | December 3, 2019

Here's what that AI face-categorizer did with 12 famous author photos.

By Katie Yee | September 18, 2019

The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

By Ishmael Reed | September 6, 2019

The 50 Greatest Coming-of-Age Novels

The 50 Greatest Coming-of-Age Novels

Summer's Almost Over . . . Just Like Your Childhood (Sorry)

By Emily Temple | August 26, 2019

Invisible Man">25 of the Best Covers for Ralph Ellison’s <emInvisible Man">

Invisible Man">25 of the Best Covers for Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

On the Novel's 67th Birthday

By Emily Temple | April 15, 2019

12 Writers on Their Own Famous Books

12 Writers on Their Own Famous Books

Atwood, Murakami, Roth and Others Unpack Their Masterpieces

By Emily Temple | November 14, 2018

A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1950s

A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1950s

We Have Reached the Halfway Mark of This Series

By Emily Temple | October 22, 2018

Ralph Ellison: Coming of Age During the Rise of the KKK

Ralph Ellison: Coming of Age During the Rise of the KKK

Black Life in Oklahoma City, Between the Wars

By Sam Anderson | August 21, 2018

50 Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature

50 Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature

Guns, Broads, Beefcake, Literariness

By Emily Temple | May 2, 2018

Invisible Man">The Other Invisibles of Ralph Ellison's <emInvisible Man">

Invisible Man">The Other Invisibles of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

Gabrielle Bellot on the Othering of Caribbeans and Africans in America

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 1, 2017

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