The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J. Sandel: “'To be without work, to be without use to one's fellow citizens, is to be in truth the Invisible Man of whom Ralph Ellison wrote.'”
The Help by Kathryn Stockett: “He read this book call Invisible Man. When he done, he say he gone write down what it was like to be colored working for a white man in Mississippi.”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “his pride at having composed Invisible Man was the largest single factor in his refusal to publish a second novel during his lifetime.”
The Facts by Philip Roth: “instructing through examples drawn from Invisible Man and the ambiguous relationship that novel had established”