Ralph Ellison’s first novel, “Invisible Man” (Random House), is an exceptionally good book and in parts an extremely funny one. That is not to say that it is without defects, but since they ...

Ralph Ellison, author of what many consider to be the greatest American novel of the 20th Century, was a complicated man. Brilliant, yet complex. Born in 1914 in the deeply segregated ...

His 2016 senior thesis focused on spatial practices of race in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Throughout his time at Northwestern, Abdullah pursued various forms of political, social and scholarly ...