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 ...

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 ...

I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Ellison's ...

While all of these factors contribute to making “Invisible Man” a classic, they all support the main factor: Ellison wrote a novel of ideas. Not a single idea, but a host of them. The American ...

Working through “Invisible Man” in this climate, I began to think about what it might look like to teach it as though I had learned something from Ellison about literature and about America.

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 ...

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. In 1952, the photographer Gordon Parks worked with Ralph Ellison to ...

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 ...

Read through a theological lens, the classics of Black literature, like Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, can point us toward a rich and profound answer. Ellison’s attention to the embodied ...

The last line of Ralph Ellison's novel 'Invisible Man' holds significant meaning and connection to the title and themes of the story. It explores the themes of invisibility, identity, voice ...

And today Ellison, author of the oft-targeted novel “Invisible Man,” is in focus. Ellison’s essay pondering what the U.S. would look like without Black people addresses literal efforts ...