Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellisonโs literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as โa body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,โ and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. โRalph Ellison,โ wrote Stanley Crouch, โreached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.โ