Ralph Ellison Archives - The American Scholar

Sadness, Irony, and Equilibrium

By Phillip Lopate | 01/27/2017 |

When art turns blue

Literary Cubs, Canceling Out Each Other’s Reticence

By David A. Taylor | 03/01/2009

Letters between Federal Writers’ Project cohorts Richard Wright and Nelson Algren depict a mutual admiration rare among young novelists

The Impulse to Exclude

By Phyllis Rose | 03/01/2007

Ralph Ellison wrote one great novel and then lived a life that is hard to admire