Warshow (1917-55) was among the inventors of “the criticism of popular culture,” Mr. Denby writes. If Warshow wrung a sizable ...
Bernier, Celeste-Marie. Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2012. "bird, n1." Green's Dictionary of Slang. Jonathon Green and ...
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 ...