W. Ralph Eubanks is a visiting professor of English and Southern studies at the University of Mississippi. A writer and essayist whose work focuses on race, identity and the American South, his most recent book is A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape.

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Book Review

Newly released Richard Wright novel puts a surreal eye on 1940s Black life

Book review: It was published only as a short story in its day, but now that we have the complete novel of The Man Who Lived Underground, it might be time to reconsider Richard Wright's body of work more fully.