So going into this, you should know that it’s not Ralph Ellison’s second novel. And despite what the cover of the other version of this material “Juneteenth” says, that’s also not Ralph Ellison’s second novel. John F Callahan edited both, but his editing here suggests he knows better. Instead, this represents some half of the written material that Ralph Ellison wrote after the publication of Invisible Man. The basic editorial decision making process was: where they could determine Ralph Ellison’s intentions, they honored those. That’s […]