Literary Essays and Reviews 

  • Advertisement comment. In a review of The Unwritten War, by Daniel AaronNew York Review of Books, (Fall 1973).

  • "The Alain Locke Symposium." Harvard Advocate (Spring 1974): 9-28.

  • "Anti-War Novel." New Masses 35 (18 June 1940): 29-30.

  • "Argosy Across the USA." New Masses 37 (26 November 1940): 24.

  • "Beating That Boy." New Republic 113 (22 October 1945): 535-536.

  • "Big White Fog." New Masses 37 (12 November 1940): 22-23.

  • "The Blues." New York Review of Books 1 (6 February 1964): 5-7.

  • Bookjacket comment. In Culture and Poverty, by Charles A. Valentine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

  • Bookjacket comment. In Hue and Cry, by James A. McPherson. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1969.

  • Bookjacket comment.  In The Omni-Americans by Albert Murray. New York: Outerbridge, 1970.

  • Bookjacket comment. In a review of Elbow Room, by James A. McPherson. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1977.

  • "Boston Adventure." Tomorrow 4 (December 1944): 120.

  • "Change the Yoke and Slip the Yoke." Partisan Review 25 (Spring 1958): 212-222.

  • "Collaborator with His Own Enemy." New York Times Book Review, February 1950, 4.

  • "Creative and Cultural Lag." New Challenge 2 (Fall1937): 90-91.

  • "The Darker Brother." Tomorrow 4 (September 1943): 67-68.

  • "Escape the Thunder." Tomorrow 5 (March 1945): 91-92.

  • Foreword. In There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden, by Leon Forrest.  New York: Random House, 1973.

  • "The Good Life." New Masses 34 (20 February 1940): 27.

  • "The Great Migration." New Masses 51 (2 December 1941): 23-24.

  • "Hidden Name and Complex Fate."  In The Writer's Experience. Ed. Ellison and Karl Shapiro.  Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1964.

  • "Hunters and Pioneers." New Masses 34 (19 March 1940): 26.

  • "If the Twain Shall Meet." Washington Post Book Week (8 November 1964): 1, 20-25.

  • "Javanese Folklore." New Masses 34 (26 December 1939): 25-26.

  • "The Little Man at Chehaw Station: The American Artist and His Audience." The American Scholar 47 (Winter 1977-78): 25-48.

  • "The Magic of Limping John." Tomorrow 4 (December 1944): 121.

  • "Native Land." New Masses 42 (2 June 1942): 29.

  • "Negro Prize Fighter." New Masses 37 (17 December 1940): 26-27.

  • "New World A-Coming." Tomorrow 4 (December 1944): 67-68.

  • "The Novel as a Function of American Democracy." Wilson Library Bulletin (June 1967): 1022-1027.

  • "On Becoming a Writer." Commentary 38 (October 1964): 57-60. Reprinted in Shadow and Act.  New York: Random House, 1964.

  • "On Initiation Rites and Power: Ralph Ellison Speaks at West Point." Contemporary Literature 15 (Spring 1974):165-186.

  • "Perspectives of Literature." In American Law: The Third Century, the Law Bicentennial Volume, ed. Bernard Schwartz. Hackensack, NJ: Rothman, 1976.

  • "Practical Mystic." New Masses 28 (16 August 1938): 25-26.

  • "Recent Negro Fiction." New Masses 40 (5 August 1941): 22-26.

  • "A Rejoinder." New Leader 47 (3 February 1964): 15-63.

  • "Remembering Richard Wright." Delta: Revue du Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Ecrivains du Sud aux Etats-Unis 18 (1984): 1-13.

  • "Resourceful Human." Saturday Review 41 (12 July 1958): 33-34.

  • "Richard Wright and Recent Negro Fiction." Direction 4 (Summer 1941): 12-13.

  • "Richard Wright's Blues." Antioch Review 5 (Summer1945): 198-211.

  • "Romance in the Slave Era." New Masses 35 (29 May 1940): 27-28.

  • "Ruling-class Southerner." New Masses 30 (5 December 1939): 27.

  • "The Shadow and the Act." Reporter 1 (6 December 1949): 17-19.

  • "Society, Morality, and the Novel." In The Living Novel: A Symposium, ed. Granville Hicks. New York: McMillan, 1957.

  • "Southern Folklore." New Masses 37 (5 November 1940): 4.

  • "Stepchild Fantasy." Saturday Review 29 (8 June 1946): 25-26.

  • "Stephen Crane and the Mainstream of American Fiction." Introduction to Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Four Great Stories. New York: Dell, 1960.

  • "Stormy Weather." New Masses 37 (24 September 1940): 20-21.

  • "TAC Negro Show." New Masses 34 (27 February 1940): 29-30.

  • "Transition." Negro Quarterly 1 (Spring 1942): 87-92.

  • "Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity." Confluence (December 1953): 3-21. Reprinted in Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Ed. Angelyn Mitchell Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1994.

  • "The Unpublished Ellison." In Black in America. New York: New Yorker Magazine, 1996.

  • "The World and the Jug." New Leader 46 (9 December 1963): 22-26.



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