Famed author Ralph Ellison, who wrote the literary classic “Invisible Man,” was working on a second novel when he died of pancreatic cancer in 1994. Two editors were given access to his archive and have completed work on Ellison’s final work, “Three Days Before the...

Two new novels this month are based on motifs from Homer’s great poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Alan Cheuse reviews Ransom by David Malouf and The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachery Mason. » E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us View full...