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The Visible Man

Ralph Ellison: A Biography, by Arnold Rampersad

by Darryl Pinckney

The New York Review of Books, June 14, 2007, pp. 56-58

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        A Land as God Made It by James Horn
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      19. Letters by Michael Lind, James M. McPherson, and Avishai Margalit, ..., pp. 64-65
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        Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
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        My Double Life by Sarah Bernhardt
        Being Divine by Ruth Brandon
        The Divine Sarah by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale
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        Burning to Read by James Simpson
      13. [+]
        A Bright Voice from a Dark Place by John Banville, pp. 53-55 - 1 Review
        Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
      14. [+]
        The New Montenegro: The State That Was Not a State by Noel Malcolm, pp. 56-58 - 1 Review
        Realm of the Black Mountain by Elizabeth Roberts
      15. [+]
        A Great Twentieth-Century Poet by Charles Simic, pp. 59-61 - 2 Reviews
        Edwin Arlington Robinson by Scott Donaldson
        Edwin Arlington Robinson: Poems by Scott Donaldson and Edwin Arlington Robinson
      16. [+]
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        Thermopylae by Paul Cartledge
      17. [+]
        The Shock of Intrusion by Christopher Benfrey, pp. 65-69 - 1 Review
        Breaking Open Japan by George Feifer
      18. [+]
        Auden and God by Edward Mendelson, pp. 70-75 - 1 Review
        Auden and Christianity by Arthur Kirsch
      19. 'The Supreme Court Phalanx' by Charles Rosen and Robert L. Marshall, p. 76
      20. Letters by Janet Malcolm, Larry McMurtry, and James K. Galbraith, ..., pp. 77-80
    3. [+]
      December 20, 2007 Issue = 21 Articles
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        'Ravished by Oranges' by Simon Leys, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review
        Return to Dragon Mountain by Jonathan D. Spence
      2. Norman Mailer (1923-2007) by Jason Epstein, pp. 10-11
      3. [+]
        Recreating Picasso by Andrew Butterfield, pp. 12-17 - 1 Review
        A Life of Picasso, Vol. III: 1917-1932 by John Richardson
      4. [+]
        The Amazing Wanderer by Christian Caryl, pp. 18-25 - 1 Review
        Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
      5. [+]
        Gold & Geld by John Updike, pp. 26-29 - 1 Review
        Gustav Klimt by Renee Price
      6. [+]
        In the Pit of Africa by Joshua Hammer, pp. 30-37 - 1 Review
        When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
      7. [+]
        The Shadow of Rose by Colm Toibin, pp. 38-45 - 1 Review
        Notebooks by Tennessee Williams and Margaret Bradham Thornton, ...
      8. [+]
        Where Wonders Await Us by Tim Flannery, pp. 46-51 - 2 Reviews
        The Deep by Claire Nouvian
        The Silent Deep by Tony Koslow
      9. [+]
        Dark Victories by Garry Wills, pp. 52-57 - 1 Review
        The Roman Triumph by Mary Beard
      10. [+]
        The Court: How 'So Few Have So Quickly Changed So Much' by Anthony Lewis, pp. 58-61 - 1 Review
        The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
      11. [+]
        The Wand of the Enchanter by Michael Dirda, pp. 62-65 - 4 Reviews
        The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973-1982 by Greg Johnson and Joyce Carol Oates
        The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
        The Museum of Dr. Moses by Joyce Carol Oates
        Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970-2006 by Greg Johnson and Joyce Carol Oates
      12. [+]
        At the Heart of the Terror by Colin Jones, pp. 66-69 - 1 Review
        Fatal Purity by Ruth Scurr
      13. The Renegade by Charles Simic, pp. 70-72
      14. [+]
        At Home in Paradise by Madison Smartt Bell, pp. 73-75 - 9 Reviews
        Boone: A Biography by Robert Morgan
        Our Savage Neighbors by Peter Silver
        Daniel Boone: His Own Story by Daniel Boone
        The Life of Daniel Boone by Lyman Copeland Draper and Ted Franklin Belue
        My Father, Daniel Boone by Neal O. Hammon and Nathan Boone
        A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone by Peter Houston and Ted Franklin Belue
        The Strange Attractor by Robert Morgan
        The Mountains Won't Remember Us, and Other Stories by Robert Morgan
        The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner
      15. [+]
        Immoral Rearmament by Richard J. Evans, pp. 76-79 - 1 Review
        The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze
      16. [+]
        From the Other Shore by Elaine Blair, pp. 80-81 - 1 Review
        The Last Chicken in America by Ellen Litman
      17. [+]
        Iraq: The Hidden Human Costs by Michael Massing, pp. 82-89 - 6 Reviews
        One Bullet Away by Nathaniel C. Fick
        Generation Kill by Evan Wright
        House to House by David Bellavia and John R. Bruning
        Chasing Ghosts by Paul Rieckhoff
        Love My Rifle More Than You by Kayla Williams and Michael E. Staub
        Cobra II by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
      18. 'The Green vs. the Brown Amazon' by John Terborgh and Mark London, pp. 90-94
      19. Will Slower Population Growth Stop Global Warming? by Bill McKibben and Allen Schill, p. 95
      20. Letters by Francisco Goldman, Aryeh Neier, and Garry Wills, pp. 95-97
      21. Just Before by Jorie Graham, pp. 98-100
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  Issues of 2008 = 13 Issues, 286 Articles
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  Issues of 2009 = 17 Issues, 324 Articles
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
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  Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles