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Native Son

Richard Wright

1940

Harper & Brothers

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Book Review

Outcasts and Desperados

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

by Adam Shatz via London Review of Books
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on October 4, 2021
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"Native Son" and the Cinematic Aspirations of Richard Wright

Novelist Richard Wright yearned to break into film, but Hollywood's censorship of black stories left his aspirations unfulfilled.

by Anna Shechtman via The New Yorker
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on April 4, 2019

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Split frame image of Norman Mailer in black and white, as a photograph and a negative.

My Norman Mailer Problem—and Ours

Digging down into the roots of white America’s infatuation with Black.

by Darryl Pinckney via The Nation on March 7, 2022

What We Want from Richard Wright

A newly restored novel tests an old dynamic between readers and the author of “Native Son.”

by Lauren Michele Jackson via The New Yorker on May 12, 2021

Richard Wright at a typewriter

Richard Wright's Newly Uncut Novel Offers a Timely Depiction of Police Brutality

'The Man Who Lived Underground,' newly expanded from a story into a novel by the Library of America, may revise the seminal Black author's reputation.

by Sonaiya Kelley via Los Angeles Times on April 19, 2021

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