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April 12, 1999

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Featured Pick

fiction

Mister Movie-Man

Ralph Ellison

An edited chapter from Ellison’s second novel, the posthumously published follow-up to “The Invisible Man.”

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profiles

Thinking the Unthinkable

Robert S. Boynton