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Invisible Man

RALPH ELI,ISON'S Invisible Man was invisible 'because people refuse to see me . . . it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they......

The Church That Failed

By a quirk of coincidence, the first copies of Charles Davis's new book arrived at the pub- lishers on the day he announced his decision to leave the Roman Catholic priesthood......