Steven G. Kellman

Steven G. Kellman is a professor of comparative literature and the Jack and Laura Richmond Faculty Research Fellow at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His books include Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, The Translingual Imagination, and The Self-Begetting Novel.

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 2, 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 3, 2019

Playwright, Poet, Outsider, Spy

By Steven G. Kellman | Friday November 14, 2025

Schmaltz of Significance

By Steven G. Kellman | Tuesday September 3, 2024

The Widower’s Lament

By Steven G. Kellman | Monday March 4, 2024

Down and Out

By Steven G. Kellman | Friday October 27, 2023

Errant Thought

By Steven G. Kellman | Wednesday March 1, 2023

More Than Mere Words

By Steven G. Kellman | Thursday January 26, 2023

Jena-Gadda-Da-Vida

By Steven G. Kellman | Thursday September 1, 2022

A Whale of a Story

By Steven G. Kellman | Wednesday June 1, 2022

Found in Translation

By Steven G. Kellman | Monday March 7, 2022

Poet of the Extreme

By Steven G. Kellman | Monday October 18, 2021

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