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Steven G. Kellman

Steven G. Kellman  is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His books include The Restless Ilan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside, Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, The Translingual Imagination, and The Self-Begetting Novel.

Admired and Abhorred

Admired and Abhorred

The German composer whose legacy continues to confound

by Steven G. Kellman | Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Kellman: Stone and his wife, Janice in Hawaii, c. 1979.

Not Quite Forgotten 

The unheralded success ofa fine American novelist

by Steven G. Kellman | Monday, March 02, 2020
Black and white photo of Susan Sontag

Image Is Not Everything 

A definitive portrait of a celebrated American intellectual

by Steven G. Kellman | Tuesday, September 03, 2019

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

King, Kennedy, and the Power of Words

by Tim Wendel

April 4th marked the 53rd anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. That night in 1968, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy broke the news to an Indianapolis crowd gathered for one of his rallies. “Listening to the speech decades later is to be reminded of the real power of words,” writes Tim Wendel in this 2012 essay. “How they can heal, how they can still bring us together, but only if they are spoken with conviction and from the heart.”

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