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 ...

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The bill’s threat of a $10,000 fine per infraction will only create fear and lead to banning perfectly good books for people who happen to be minors.

"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison comes to mind. Also, "Beloved" by Toni Morrison and "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. And yet what a loss, what a deprivation to ban great literature from our ...

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 ...

Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man The past is not in your hands to worry about it. Focus on your present. 30. "People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." ...

Mutual aid is the brigade of volunteers mucking out basements after a flood, the church basement food pantry staffed by ...

Image Whitten’s “Black Monolith II (Homage to Ralph Ellison The Invisible Man),” 1994, is a rough-textured mosaic pieced together from thousands of pixel-like cubes of dried paint ...

Books have a world of their own, offering a form of escape while also grounding us in reality, isn’t it? Whether it’s diving ...