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Ralph Ellison

March 2021

  • Kenan Malik

    Lost in translation: the dead end of dividing the world on identity lines

    Kenan Malik
    Race should not be a factor in who turns the poetry of Amanda Gorman into Dutch

May 2020

  • Matanuska Glacier In Alaska Serves As Hiking Destination Near City Of Anchorage<br>PALMER, ALASKA - SEPTEMBER 07: The Matanuska glacier is seen on September 07, 2019 near Palmer, Alaska. Some studies show that as global temperatures rise, Alaskas 19,000 glaciers will lose between 30% and 50% of their mass by the end of the century. Scientists continue to investigate what this means to the environment as well as the rising level of the oceans. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

    Alaskan school board lifts ban on Gatsby and Catch-22 after protests

    The Matanuska-Susitna borough in Palmer restores modern classics by authors including F Scott Fitzgerald and Joseph Heller to curriculum after community action

June 2019

  • Demi Moore as Hester Prynne in the 1995 film of The Scarlet Letter.

    Top 10s
    From Dickens to Roth: top 10 novels about pariahs

    In characters such as Scrooge, Ira Ringold and Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne, those society seeks to exclude and expel make for compelling reading

February 2019

  • Cantor<br>FILE - This 1920s image shows comedian Eddie Cantor wearing blackface while performing “If You Knew Susie.” Blackface minstrelsy is considered by some to be the first uniquely American form of entertainment. White men would darken their faces to create caricatures of black people, including large mouths, lips and eyes, woolly hair and coal-black skin. (AP Photo/File)

    Blackface is a strange ghost that haunts America

    Gabrielle Bellot
    The growing political scandal in Virginia forces us to look at the legacy of blackface and ask: why is it so enduring?

December 2018

  • Afro-surrealism … from left, Atlanta, Until the Quiet Comes, Sorry to Bother You, Apeshit, Random Acts of Flyness, Hub Tones

    From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: the new age of Afro-surrealism

    From psychedelic sketch shows to far-out satire, black artists are expressing the absurdity of life in a racist society by embracing the disturbing and bizarre

September 2014

  • cherry blossom DC

    Reading American cities
    Washington DC in books: readers' picks

    Family dramas, political intrigues, multiculturalism and much more. From Ralph Ellison to Norah Ephron, if you’re planning a visit to the US capital, here’s your reading sorted

August 2013

  • Albert Murray's books included a sequence of four novels featuring his alter ego Scooter

    Albert Murray obituary

    Writer who explored the role of black culture in what he called 'omni-American' life

August 2011

  • Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day

    Top 10s
    Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude

    The author picks out the best of literature's lonely odysseys, from Colm Tóibín's The Master to Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day

March 2011

  • Rainbow over farmland in California

    Top 10s
    Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour

    The author of Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage, which is shortlisted for the Warwick prize picks his favourites

July 2010

  • 10 of the best
    Ten of the best nameless protagonists in literature

    John Mullan goes in search of anonymity

November 2008

  • New York

    A literary crawl of New York

    Ditch the guide book and turn to New York's rich literary heritage to get under the skin of the city. Joshua Stein gives his pick of defining works from the early 1930s to the present day

February 2006

  • Fanny McConnell Ellison

    Obituary: Editor who married the author of Invisible Man and played a key role in the genesis of that American masterpiece.

October 2005

  • Picture perfect

    Since the 1970s, Canadian photographer Jeff Wall has worked as if he's a cinematographer, using a cast and crew to create large-scale, dramatic images that can take more than a year to get right. But he also likes to take intimate, documentary shots. He tells Melissa Denes why they are two sides of the same coin.

August 2003

  • Top 10s
    Joyce Hackett's top 10 musical novels

    Joyce Hackett is the author of Disturbance of The Inner Ear, a novel about music, history and love. Narrated by a cellist who has been playing her instrument without sound for over a decade, the novel recounts how Isabel regains her ability to play via an affair with an Italian male prostitute

November 1999

  • Son of a preacher man

  • Last writes

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