Coverage of Richard Wright's The Man Who Lived Underground

On April 20, the Library of America will publish Richard Wright's previously unpublished novel The Man Who Lived Underground. Here's a roundup of the coverage on the book. 

• May 26: The long-lost 80-year-old novel that sums up our world - Gene Seymour - CNN

• May 20: Did ‘Cancel Culture’ Drive Richard Wright Underground? - Joseph G. Ramsey - The Nation

• May 13: Restored Richard Wright novel hits bestseller lists - Hillel Italie - ABC News

• May 12: What We Want from Richard Wright - Lauren Michele Jackson - The New Yorker

• May 7: Richard Wright’s Novel About Racist Police Violence - Democracy Now!

• May 7: The Bleak Prescience of Richard Wright - Imani Perry - The Atlantic

• May 3: Notes From Below: The lost novel of Richard Wright - Elias Rodriques - The Nation

• May 2: Wright's 'Underground' gets the full treatment - Philip Martin - Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

• April 23: Nearly Eighty Years Later, Wright's novel Emerges - Aaron Coates - Chicago Review of Books

• April 23: Richard Wright’s Lost Novel - Clifford Thompson - Wall Street Journal

• April 23: Going underground - Douglas Field - TLS

• April 23: Notes From the Underground - Scott McLemee - Inside Higher ED

• April 21:Wright’s novel of police brutality: The most relevant book of 2021 was written 80 years ago - Christopher Borrelli - Chicago Tribune 

• April 20: Richard Wright’s Newly Restored Novel Is a Tale for Today - Reginald Dwayne Betts - New York Times

• April 20: Wright's book about police brutality on a Black suspect is published - Sam Cohen - Denver Channel

• April 20: The Man Who Lived Underground - Steve Nathans-Kelly - New York Journal of Books

• April 20: Wright's Lost Novel About Police Brutality Speaks Across Decades - Adrienne Westenfeld - Esquire 

• April 20: Richard Wright's 'The Man Who Lived Underground' To Be Posthumously Published - NPR

• April 19: When Richard Wright Broke With the Communists – Colin Asher – The New Republic 

• April 19: Unearthing ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ - Colleen Walsh - Harvard Gazette

• April 15: The Man Who Lived Underground - Christopher Borrelli - Chicago Tribune

• April 15: New Richard Wright book to be released years after death - Keydra Manns - The Grio

• April 14: Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out - Noor Qasim - New York Times 

• April 5: An Excerpt from Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground - Penguin Random House

• April 3: The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This April - Tobias Carroll - Inside Hook

• March 31: Oprah Interviews Wright's Grandson About Man Who Lived Underground - Leigh Haber - Oprah Daily

• March 26: Our Most Anticipated New Book Releases of April 2021 - Kat Sarfas - Barnes and Noble

• March 26: How many other masterworks got shelved due to  editorial cowardice? - Tyehimba Jess - Twitter

• March 26: Excited to hear that the full draft of Richard Wright's...being published - Qiana Whitted - Twitter

• March 25: 15 New Books to Watch For in April - Joumana Khatib - New York Times

• March 25: Editors Refused to Publish Wright's Most Important Novel—Until Now - Leigh Haber - Oprah Daily

• March 24: LOA to publish a never-before-seen novel by author of Native Son - Library of America

• March 23: Ethan Herisse recording "The Man Who Lived Underground" - HarperAudio - Twitter

• March 15: The Man Who Lived Underground - Donna Seaman - Book List Online 

• March 13: The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright - Raymond Williams - Ballasts of the Mind

• March 6: Wright ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ To Be Published In April - Langston Hughes Review- Twitter

• March 4: Malcolm Wright about grandfather's unpublished novel - Scott Simon - Twitter

• March 1: Next month we present Wright's previously unpublished novel - Library of America - Twitter

• Feb. 26: Wright Novel To Be Published In April - Rachel Kramer Bussel - Forbes 

• Feb. 25: Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground - Morgan McComb - HBW

• Feb. 22: Richard Wright: The Man Who Lived Underground - Library of America

• Jan. 20: The Man Who Lived Underground - Publishers Weekly

• Jan. 12: Unpublished Wright novel makes The Millions "Most-Anticipated" - Library of America - Twitter

• Jan. 11: Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2021 Book Preview - The Millions 

• Jan. 8: Lit Hub has advance word on The Man Who Lived Underground - Library of America - Twitter

• Jan. 6: Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021 - Lit Hub

2020

• June 12: In February, we release The Man Who Lived Underground - Library of America - Twitter

Related:

• A Notebook on Richard Wright

• Rediscovering Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground"