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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.

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
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Image Is Not Everything 

A definitive portrait of a celebrated American intellectual

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

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2nd Look

Where Does American History Begin?

by Ted Widmer

In honor of the Fourth of July, we’re revisiting Ted Widmer’s 2008 piece “Where Does American History Begin?” For many, the obvious answer is in 1776 Philadelphia, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Others might argue that hints of modern America emerged in the Jamestown and Plymouth settlements. But America’s true beginnings, Widmer writes, go back much further.

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