Steven G. Kellman is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the author of Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth and The Translingual Imagination.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Tiny Pinpoint Glimmers: On Marina Jarre’s “Distant Fathers”
This elliptical memoir is the first English translation of a major modern Italian author....
On Lives and Counterlives
Two solid biographies of the late Philip Roth, one authorized, one not....
The Fallacy of American Studies: A Conversation
On xenolinguaphobia and the provincialism of American Studies....
The Art of Slacking: Paul Hendrickson's "Hemingway's Boat"
FOR BOTH HIS MASTER OF ELLIPTICAL English prose and his flamboyant persona, Ernest Hemingway may well be the most influential American ...