The definitive biography of an important American cultural intellectual of the twentieth century--Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece Invisible Man. In 1953, Ellison's explosive story of a young ...

Try this short quiz on books that arrived after their authors departed. By J. D. Biersdorfer The Lives They Lived, an annual issue in The Times Magazine, was the idea of the director David Frankel. By ...

The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised ...