STEVEN G. KELLMAN

Department of English University of Texas at San Antonio One UTSA Circle San Antonio, Texas 78249-0643 [email protected] office: (210) 458-5216 fax (210) 458-5366

I. EDUCATION

Ph. D.: University of California, Berkeley, 1972. Comparative Literature. M. A.: University of California, Berkeley, 1969. Comparative Literature. B. A.: State University of New York, Binghamton, 1967. High honors English & General Literature. Valedictorian, summa cum laude.

II. HONORS AND AWARDS

McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction 2008, Southwest Review. Gemini Ink Award for Literary Excellence, 2008. National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, 2007. Second Place, Arts Criticism (circ. <60,000), Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, 2007. First Place, Arts Criticism (circ. <50,000), Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, 2006. New York Society Library Award for Biography, 2006. 2005 Arts and Letters Award, San Antonio Public Library Foundation. Texas Institute of Letters, 2005- . S. T. Harris Foundation Grant, 2003-2004. NEH "Extending the Reach" grant, spring, 2001. Fulbright Distinguished Chair, University of Sofia, fall, 2000. John E. Sawyer Fellow, Longfellow Institute, Harvard University, spring, 1997. UTSA Faculty Research Leave, 1996, 2001, 2005, 2009. NEH Summer Seminar, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, June-August, 1996. Fulbright-Hays study grant to China, June-July, 1995. Board of Directors, National Book Critics Circle, 1996-99,1999-2002, 2009-2012, 2012-2015. Who's Who in America UTSA President's Distinguished Achievement Award in Recognition of Research Excellence, 1990-91; 2005-2006. UTSA Faculty Research Award, 2006, 1997, 1993, 1991. Partners of the Americas lecturer in Peru, 1988, 1995.

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1986 H. L. Mencken Writing Award. PEN American Center, 1985- . 1985-86 UTSA Amoco Teaching Award. Danforth Teaching Associate, 1981-86. Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Lit., 1980, U.S.S.R. Ford Foundation Special Career Fellow, 1967-72.

III. EMPLOYMENT

Ashbel Smith Professor of Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 1995-2000. Professor of Comparative Literature, 1985- . Associate Professor (tenured) of Comparative Literature, 1980-85. Assistant Professor of Comparative Lit, 1976-80.

Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, fall, 1982.

Lecturer (visiting), Dept. of English & Comparative Literature, Univ. of California, Irvine, 1975-76.

Lecturer, Department of Poetics & Comparative Literature, Tel-Aviv University, 1973-75.

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bemidji State University, Minnesota, 1972-73.

Acting Instructor, Department of Comparative Literature, Univ. of California, Berkeley, spring, 1972.

IV. PUBLICATIONS

1. Books

As Sole Author:

15 Larks to Be an Owl (San Antonio: Southwest School of Art & Craft and Gemini Ink: 2008)--limited edition commemorative chapbook.

Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005).

The Translingual Imagination (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000).

Scrivere tra le lingue, trans. Franca Sinopoli (Troina: Città Aperta, 2007).

The Plague: Fiction and Resistance (Boston: Twayne, 1993).

The Modern American Novel (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1991).

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Loving Reading: Erotics of the Text (Hamden, Conn.: Archon, 1985).

The Self-Begetting Novel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980) (London: Macmillan, 1980).

As Editor:

(With John D. Wilson), Magill’s Literary Annual 2012 (Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2012). 2 volumes.

Critical Insights: Albert Camus (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2011). Also contributed essay “On Albert Camus,” Chronology, and Bibliography.

(With John D. Wilson), Magill’s Literary Annual 2011 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2011). 2 volumes.

(With John D. Wilson), Magill’s Literary Annual 2010 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010). 2 volumes.

M. E. Ravage, An American in the Making: The Life Story of an Immigrant (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009).

Magill’s Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2009). 6 volumes.

(With John D. Wilson), Magill’s Literary Annual 2009 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2009). 2 volumes.

(With John D. Wilson), Magill’s Literary Annual 2008 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2008). 2 volumes.

Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised edition (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2007). 6 volumes.

(With John D. Wilson), Magill's Literary Annual 2007 (Pasadena, CA, Salem Press, 2007). 2 volumes.

(With John D. Wilson), Magill's Literary Annual 2006 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2006). 2 volumes.

(With John D. Wilson), Magill's Literary Annual 2005 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2005). 2 volumes.

(With John D. Wilson), Magill's Literary Annual 2004 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2004). 2 volumes.

Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2003).

(With John D. Wilson), Magill's Literary Annual 2003 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2003). 2 volumes.

(With John D. Wilson), Magill's Literary Annual 2002 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2002). 2 volumes.

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(With Joseph Dewey and Irving Malin), UnderWords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Underworld (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002).

(With John D. Wilson), Magill's Literary Annual 2001 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2001). 2 volumes.

(With Irving Malin), Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000).

Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2000). 6 volumes.

(With Irving Malin), Leslie Fiedler and American Culture (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999).

(With Irving Malin), Into The Tunnel: Readings in Gass's Novel (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998).

Perspectives on Raging Bull (New York: G. K. Hall, 1994).

Approaches to Teaching Camus's The Plague (New York: Modern Language Association, 1985).

2. Essays:

“David Davalos Sends Hamlet Back to School in Wittenberg.” San Antonio Current, October 30- November 5, 2013: 33. http://sacurrent.com/arts/visualart/david-davalos-sends-hamlet-back-to-school- 1.1576221.

“Bexar County Reinvents the Library.” The Texas Observer 105 10 (October 2013): 34-36.

“Just Collecting Dust” (poem). Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine 6 1 (October 15, 2013): 9.

“Promiscuous Tongues: Erotics of Translation and Translingualism.” Neohelicon 40 1 (March 2013): 35-45.

“Writing South and North: Ariel Dorfman’s Linguistic Ambidexterity.” Orbis Litterarum 68 No. 3 (June 2013): 207-21.

“Translating Rulfo: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans.” Translation Review, 86. 1 (2013): 1-11.

“Cry, the Beloved Country: The Great American South-African Novel.” The Saint Ann’s Review, spring, 2013, 107-119.

“Urbs et/est Orbis: Saul Bellow the ‘Street Kid.’” Saul Bellow Journal 26 No. 1-2 (winter/fall 2013):

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21-31.

“Four Score and Philip Roth.” Tablet Magazine, March 22, 2013, http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/127998/four-score-and-philip-roth.

“Good Mourning, Vietnam.” San Antonio Current, August 8-14, 2012, 17, 19, 64.

Interview. Los Angeles Review of Books. April, 2012: http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=475&fulltext=1&media=

“Ilan Stavans and the Translingual Express.” Ómnibus: Revista intercultural del mundo hispanohablante Vol. 8 no. 38 ( March, 2012). “Ilan Stavans y el Expreso Translingüe.” Martín F. Yriart, trans.: http://www.omni-bus.com/n38/sites.google.com/site/omnibusrevistainterculturaln38/especial/sobre-el- autor.html.

“Henry Roth.” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley- Blackwell, 2011), David Madden, Justus Nieland, and Patrick O’Donnell, ed.

Symposium: “Who’s In? Who’s Out.” American Book Review 32 No. 5 (July-August 2011): 5.

Hans Keilson obituary. Critical Mass, NBCC blogsite, June 1, 2011: http://bookcritics.org/blog.

“Entertainment: Academy Awards for Films.” The Thirties in America, Thomas Tandy Lewis, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2011), Vol. 3: 1057-59.

“Literary Works” (annotated bibliography). Great Lives From History: Jewish Americans, Rafael Medoff, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2011), Vol. 4: 1344-55.

“Book Reviews: Major Critics Speak on How to Keep Them Relevant.” Huffingtonpost.com, January 31, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/book-reviews-major- critics_b_811976.html#s225451&title=Steven_G_Kellman.

“Henry Roth.” HistoryAccess.com. 2011. http://historyaccess.com/henryroth-histor.html.

“Defender of the Faith.” Masterplots, Fourth Edition. Laurence W. Mazzeno, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010): 1425-27.

“Entertainment: Major Films.” The Forties in America, Thomas Tandy Lewis, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010). Vol. 3: 1111-1117.

“'The only fit food for a man is half a lemon': Kafka's Plea and Other Culinary Aberrations.” Southwest Review, Vol. 95 No. 4 (2010): 532-45.

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“The Return of the Thirties.” the minnesota review, Vol. 75 (fall, 2010): 59-68.

“Honor Among Scholars.” The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education). October 8, 2010: B4-B5.

“The Worst of Times.” The Common Review, Vol. 9 No. 1 (Summer 2010): 53-55.

“Alien Autographs: How Translators Make Their Marks.” Neohelicon, Vol. 37 No. 1 (2010): 7-19.

“That Goes Without Saying: A Treatise on Silence.” Puerto del Sol, Vol 45 No. 1 (Spring 2010): 7-26.

“Ellis Island.” Encyclopedia of American Immigration, ed. Carl L. Bankston III (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2010). Vol 1: 313-15.

“Translingual Memoirs of the New American Immigration.” Scritture Migranti (University of Bologna), 3 (2009): 19-32.

“Joyce for Ordinary Blokes.” The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), September 25, 2009: B15-B16.

“Oil Field Girls” (poem). Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 32 (spring/summer 2009): 4. Reprinted in: Voices de la Luna, 4 4 (July 15, 2012): 9.

“It Is Happening Here: The Plot Against America and the Political Moment.” Philip Roth Studies, Vol. 4 No. 2 (fall 2008): 113-23.

“A Low, Dishonest Decade.” San Antonio Current, December 29, 2009-January 5, 2010, p. 15.

“That Smarts! SA Gets a Failing Grade.” San Antonio Current, October 28-November 3, 2009, p. 12.

“William Wayne Justice.” San Antonio Current, October 28-November 3, 2009, p. 20.

“An Elephant in the Classroom.” Huffingtonpost.com, July 9, 2009. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-kellman/an-elephant-in-the-classr_b_228236.html.

“Invisible Man Visible.” Book: The Sequel: First Lines from the Classics of the Future by Inventive Imposters., ed. Clive Piddle (New York: PublicAffairs, 2009): 58.

“Academy Awards.” The Nineties in America (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2009), Milton Berman, ed., Vol. 1, pp. 2-4.

"Curse of the Spurned Hippie." The Believer, Vol. 7 No. 3 (March/April 2009): 33-36.

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“The Snark Ascending.” Huffingtonpost.com, January 12, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-kellman/the-snark-ascending_b_156809.html.

“Albert Camus.” Magill’s Survey of World Literature, revised edition (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2009), Steven G. Kellman, ed.: 464-72.

“Bush the Bibliophile.” Huffingtonpost.com, December 27, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-kellman/bush-the-bibliophile_b_153702.html.

“A Poet at the Inauguration.” Huffingtonpost.com, December 23, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-kellman/a-poet-at-the-inauguratio_b_153004.html.

“Reading’s Next Chapter.” The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), December 19, 2008: B10-B13.

“It Was a Very Weird Year: 1968 Remembered.” San Antonio Current, October 8, 2008, http://www.sacurrent.com/arts/story.asp?id=69399.

“Education for Education’s Sake.” The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), September 5, 2008: B8-B9.

“Literature in the United States.” The Eighties in America (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2008), Milton Berman, ed.: 591-96.

"Raising Muscovite Ducks and Government Suspicions: Henry Roth and the FBI." Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Claire Culleton and Karen Leick, ed.: 39-52.

“Dance Marathon: After Philip Evergood,” “Potholes on the Road to Damascus”—two poems and interview on exhibit at the Blanton Museum, Austin, and at: blantonmuseum.org/elearning/blantonpoetry/index.html.

“Shooting the Canon and Other Barbarous Acts.” Voices: San Antonio College Multicultural Journal, Vol III (2008): 3-10.

"Second Wind." Southwest Review, Vol. 93 No. 3 (Summer 2008): 412-25.

“Living on Writer’s Block: Henry Roth and American Literature.” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 26 3 (spring 2008): 21-32.

"Just a Jew Named Joe." Shofar, Vol. 25 No. 2 (Winter 2007): 49-62."

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"Waging War Over Stowe and Shakespeare." Michigan Quarterly Review XLVI 2 (Spring 2007): 355- 64. "Oscar Hijuelos." Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition, ed. Steven G. Kellman (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2007), Vol. 3, pp. 1104-1111.

“Arms and the Curriculum." The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), October 19, 2007: 10-11.

"Life Irritates Art." JBooks.com, October, 2007: books.com/interviews/index/IP_Kellman_Roth.htm

"Dream in Peace," San Antonio Current, July 5-10, 2007, 17, 20.

"How to Sell Tundra from Texas," San Antonio Current, June 20-26, 2007, 10.

"Not a Country Bard: Larry D. Thomas, Poet Laureate," San AntonioCurrent, May 9-15, 2007, 17.

"Read a Good Book Review Lately?" San Antonio Current, May 9-15, 2007, 10.

"Electing a President Proportionally," San Antonio Current, April 4-10, 2007, 8.

"No Company Man (Peter Matthiessen)," San Antonio Current, March 21-27, 2007, 16.

"Green with Mild Envy," San Antonio Current, March 21-27, 2007, 27.

"Empty Heads Yield Highway Signs," San Antonio Current, March 7-13, 2007, 10-11.

"Forget the 'W' Marquee; UTSA Still Needs a Plain-Old Library," San Antonio Current, January 17- 23, 2007, p. 9.

"All the Glittering Prizes." Sobriquet Magazine 12 1 (2006): sobriquetmagazine.com/all-the-glittering- prizes.htm.

"Ghosting the Lost Generation: Geoff Dyer's Paris Trance," International Review of Fiction 33 (2006): 9- 17.

"Film in the United States." The Seventies in America, John C. Super, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2005): 367-71.

"The Education of Henry Roth." New England Review 26 No. 3 (2005): 10-42.

"'At Times in Flight': Henry Roth's Parable of Renunciation." The Journal of the Short Story in English

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44 (spring, 2005): 37-48.

"Latinos in American Literature." Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States, ed. Ilan Stavans (Danbury, CT: Grolier Academic Reference, 2005), Vol. III, pp. 3-6.

"Leslie Fiedler." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), Vol II, pp. 723-24.

"Vladimir Nabokov." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), Vol IV, pp. 1565-67.

"Henry Roth." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), Vol IV, pp. 1925-27."

"Aversions to Pastoral." Falling from Grace in Texas: A Literary Response to the Demise of Paradise, Rick Bass and Paul Christensen, ed. (San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2004): 105.

"Two Incendiary Authors." The Vocabula Review 6 No. 12 (December, 2004) www.vocabula.com/2004/VRDEC04Kellman.asp.

"Cardiograms from the Heartland." Michigan Quarterly Review XLIII 3 (Summer 2004): 467-76.

"Louis Begley." Holocaust Novelists. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 299, Ephraim Sucher, ed. (Detroit: Gale Research, 2004): 44-47.

"Ain't We Got Fun?" The Vocabula Review, 5 No. 11 (November, 2003) www.vocabula.com/2003/VRNOV03Kellman.asp.

"Don DeLillo's Logogenetic Underworld." Essays in American Studies: Postmodern Perspectives, Kornelia Slavova, ed. (Sofia, Bulgaria: Polis, 2003): 53-63.

"Call It Sleep." "Hedda Gabler." "The Plague." Cyclopedia of Literary Places. R. Baird Shuman, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 2003): Vol. I 165, Vol II 506-7, 917-18.

"Ilan Stavans." Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Sorrel Kerbel, ed. (New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003): 556-58.

"Life in the Margins: From Brooklyn to Bulgaria." The American Scholar 71 3 (Summer 2002): 109-18.

"Hurry Up and Graduate." University Business, September, 2002, p. 72.

"J. M. Coetzee and the Animals." African Writers and Their Readers: Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors, ed. Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002): 325-39.

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"Translingualism and the American Literary Imagination." American Babel, ed. Marc Shell (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002): 757-81.

"Henry Roth." American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies Supplement IX, ed. Jay Parini (New York: Charles Scribner's, 2002): 227-43.

"The Fulbright Report As Literary Genre." Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 34 3 (May/June 2002): 32-33.

"Who Wants to Be the Weakest Link?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, Section 2, The Chronicle Review, June 15, 2001, B24.

"Fulbright Interview." Fulbright Newsletter: Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange 23 (October-December 2000): 2-5.

"Fish, Flesh, and Foul: The Anti-Vegetarian Animus." The American Scholar 69 4 (Autumn 2000): 85- 96.

"Mulling Trilling." Hopscotch II 2 (2000): 130-38.

"Austerity Measures: Paul Auster Goes to the Dogs." The Hollins Critic XXXVII 4 (Oct., 2000): 1-11.

"Don DeLillo." American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, Supplement VI, ed. Jay Parini (New York: Charles Scribner's, 2000): 1-18.

"'The Midwife of His Rebirth': Henry Roth and Zion." Judaism 49 3 (Summer, 2000): 342-51.

"In Academe and Survivor: Sociability Trumps Talent." The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 15, 2000.

"Henry Roth." Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition, Carl Rollyson, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 2000): 2778-82.

"The Birth of a Batterer: Isaac Babel's 'My First Goose.'" New Essays in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism, Glynis Carr, ed. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell Review Press, 2000): 102-7.

"Requiem for Henry Roth." USA Today Magazine, 128 2658 (March 2000): 75-6.

"Princeton in the Movies." Princeton Alumni Weekly, November 3, 1999: 22-9."

"Swan Songs." The American Scholar 68 4 (autumn 1999): 111-19.

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"Tenants, Tenets, and Tensions: Bernard Malamud's Blacks and Jews." In: American Literary Dimensions: Poems and Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Friedman, Ben Siegel and Jay L. Halio, eds. (Newark, Delaware, University of Delaware Press, 1999): 118-27.

"Her Art Laid Bare: Provisional Notes About Joyce Carol Oates." Michigan Quarterly Review XXXVIII 3 (Summer 1999): 487-95.

"Louis Begley Joins the Firm." The Hollins Critic XXXVI 3 (June 1999): 1-11.

"Colliding Selves: Ariel Dorfman Spans the Gap Between North and South." Hopscotch I 2 (1999): 112- 17.

"Sayles Goes Spanish." Hopscotch I 1 (1999): 24-35. Also in: American Studies in Scandinavia 32 1 (2000): 54-64.

"Major Films." The Sixties in America. Carl Singleton, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1999). Vol 3: 807- 14.

"The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life." Masterplots II: Poetry Series Supplement, John Wilson and Philip K. Jason, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1999): 2860-62.

"Who Killed Kit Marlowe? Who Wants to Know?" George Garrett: The Elizabethan Trilogy, ed. Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin (Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 1998): 129-38.

"Screening New Jersey." New Jersey Life, Winter, 1998: 74-77.

"Lost in the Promised Land: Eva Hoffman Revises Mary Antin." Prooftexts 18 (1998): 149-159.

"Biographer: Get a Life!" The American Scholar. 67 3 (summer 1998): 140-142.

"Sayles Goes Spanish." Hopscotch. Preview issue (summer 1998): 10-21.

"Canon." David Peck, ed., Identities and Issues in Literature (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1997), I:215-18.

"Making Book On/In the Future." Writing Teacher. XI 2 (November 1997): 14-16.

Review of Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler, Oliver Stone--Inside Out--H-FILM, Internet listserv, July 4, 1997.

"Half in Love with Easeful Death." The Michigan Quarterly Review, XXXVI 3 (summer, 1997): 520-28.

"Sergeant Muldrow's Bird's-Eye View." The Texas Review, 17 3&4 (fall/winter 1996/1997): 43-9.

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"Translingual Links: J. M. Coetzee and Samuel Beckett." AUETSA '96: Proceedings of the Conference of the Association of University English Teachers of South Africa, Herman Wittenberg and Loes Nas, ed., Vol. 1: 295-98.

"'You Wan Hear': Dialogic Imagination in Arcadio." In: Brooke Horvath, Irving Malin, and Paul Ruffin, ed., A Goyen Companion: Appreciations of a Writer's Writer (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997): 68-79.

"From Oran to San Francisco: Shilts Appropriates Camus." College Literature 24 1 (February, 1997): 202-212.

"Rushdie's Jewish Moor." Midstream, 43 2 (Feb.-March 1997): 35-7.

"Oscar Hijuelos Plays Songs of Sisterly Love." REDEN (Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos), 11 (1996): 35-41.

"South Africa's Long Run to Justice." The Texas Observer, 88 18 (September 27, 1996): 26-7.

"Kael and Farewell." The Centennial Review, XXX 1 (Winter 1996): 143-58. Also in: Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel, ed., Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997): 209-25.

"J. M. Coetzee and Samuel Beckett: The Translingual Link." Comparative Literature Studies, 33 2 (1996), 161-72. Abridged in: Language and Literature Today: Proceedings of the XIXth Triennial Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures Vol. 2, Neide de Faria, ed. (Brasilia: University of Brasilia, 1996): 768-73.

"The Case of Independence Day." Jewish Currents 50 11 (December, 1996): 31-2, 47.

"Traveler's Notes: South Africa." PEN Newsletter 92 (fall, 1996): 6.

"The Armies of the Night." Masterplots: Revised Second Edition, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1996): 342-45."

"Travelers' Notes: China." The PEN American Center Newsletter, 90 (Winter, 1996): 7, 28.

"Vargas Llosa Returns to His Peaks." The Atlantic, 277 3 (March, 1996): 122-24.

"Print as the Pauper." The Georgia Review, XLIX 3 (fall, 1995): 740-44.

"While China Cracks." The Texas Observer, Vol. 87 No. 19 (September 29, 1995): 23.

"Camus the African." The Atlantic Monthly, 276 2 (August, 1995): 98-100.

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"The Conversion of Roommates." Midstream, XXXXI 6 (August/September, 1995): 38-39.

"In the Heart of the Lone Star Country: On the Texas Sojourn and Vision of J. M. Coetzee." The Texas Observer 87 15 (July 28, 1995): 20-21.

"The Writing on the Bijou Wall." The Centennial Review, XXXIX 1 (Winter 1995): 171-79.

"Food Fights in Iowa: The Vegetarian Stranger in Current Midwestern Fiction." The Virginia Quarterly Review, LXXI 3 (Summer 1995): 435-47.

"Sense/less of Place." Southern Lights: PEN South Literary Review, I (1995): 1-4.

"Literary Valedictorian." The Texas Observer 87 6 (March 24, 1995): 17.

"Who Says Jews Control Hollywood?" Midstream, XXXXI 2 (February/March 1995): 35-7.

"A Thousand Acres." Masterplots II: Women's Literature, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1995), Vol. 6, 2294-98.

"The Last Shall Be First." The New York Times, Dec. 15, 1994, A19.

"Literary Free Market." The Texas Observer, September 30, 1994, 19.

"Oscar Hijuelos." Magill's Survey of American Literature, Supplement. Frank N. Magill, ed. (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1994), 2454-61.

"Deliverance." Masterplots II: American Fiction, Supplement. Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1994), 2090-94.

"The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien." Masterplots II, 2172-76.

"All Together Now," In These Times, XVIII 18 (July 25, 1994), 40-39.

"Ehrenreich's Game," Michigan Quarterly Review, XXXIII 2 (spring, 1994), 375-84.

"All the World's a Movie Set: Dickey's Deliverance," South Carolina Review, spring, 1994, forthcoming.

"Literacy and the Humanities," Texas Journal of Ideas, History and Culture, 16 2 (spring/summer, 1994), 6-10.

"Schindler's List--Spielberg's Homecoming," Midstream, XL 2 (February-March, 1994), 9-12.

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13 entries on Jewish-Americans, Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism, ed. Susan Auerbach (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1994).

"The Civil War." Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture, Vol. V, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena, Ca.: Salem, 1993), 2657-62.

"Potomac Park," In These Times, XVII 19 (August 9, 1993), 39-40.

"Reading Shilts Reading Camus Reading a Plague," Literature and Sickness, ed. David Bevan (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993), 105-116.

"Verhaltene Hoffnungen," Freitag (Berlin), January 15, 1993, 7.

"Family Matters," The Gettysburg Review, V 4 (autumn, 1992), 644-655.

"Writing English as a Foreign Language," The New Review, I 2 (September-October, 1992), 50-54.

"The Trials of Recent American Film," Antioch Review, L 3 (Summer, 1992), 566-77.

"Literacy"--a white paper commissioned and distributed by the Texas Committee for the Humanities, 1993.

"Albert Camus," Magill's Survey of World Literature, Frank N. Magill, ed. (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1993), 341-352.

"The Jewish Fink," Midstream, October, 1992, 39-41.

"Fighting Trim," The Gettysburg Review, V 3 (summer, 1992), 530-538.

"Clinton Ist im Rennen, Bush hinkt, Perot Tritt zur Seite," Freitag (Berlin), July 31, 1992, 7.

"Die Utopie vom Amerikaner," Freitag (Berlin), May 22, 1992, 7.

"Novelists Trade Secrets," The Gettysburg Review, V 2 (spring, 1992), 345-354.

"Zwischen Super Bowl und Oscar: Die Primaries in den USA oder das Auswahlbaren Kandidaten," Freitag (Berlin), April 17, 1992, 8.

"Historical Illusions," The Gettysburg Review, V 1 (winter, 1992), 167-176.

Three entries. In a Word: A Dictionary of Words That Don't Exist But Ought To, Jack Hitt, ed. (New York: Laurel, 1992), 90, 120, 125.

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"Musée des Beaux Arts," Masterplots II: Poetry, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena: Salem, 1992), 1431- 1433.

"Translingualism and the Literary Imagination," Criticism, XXXIII 4 (fall, 1991), 527-541. Reprinted in: Arthur F. Marotti, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman, Jo Dulan, and Suchitra Mathur, eds., Reading with a Difference: Gender, Race, and Cultural Identity (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993), 381-395.

"King Author and His Arabian Nights," The Gettysburg Review, IV 3 (summer, 1991), 484-494.

"How Now Ray Browne: The Popular Culture Movement," Michigan Quarterly Review, XXX 3 (summer, 1991), 519-25.

"La Peste: Infected By the Bacillus of Self-Consciousness," L'Esprit Créateur, XXXI 2 (summer, 1991), 22-29.

"Microchips Off the Old Writer's Block," The Gettysburg Review, IV 2 (spring, 1991), 283-291.

"Sartrean Engagement: Joining the Battle," Romance Quarterly, XXXVIII 2 (May, 1991), 169-173.

"Weddings, Funerals, and Thanksgivings: Jews in Recent Film," Midstream, XXXVII 2 (February-March, 1991), 42-45.

"Settling in San Antonio," New Choices, XXXI 4 (April, 1991), 38-40.

"Green Freedom for the Cockatoo," The Gettysburg Review, IV 1 (winter, 1991), 145-154.

"Bum Rap: Free Speech Prevails in San Antonio," The Texas Observer, January 11, 1991, 17-19.

"Norman Mailer," Contemporary Authors, Vol. 28, Hal May and James G. Lesniak, ed. (Detroit: Gale Research, 1990), 303-308.

"Ben Hecht, Hack of Genius," Midstream, XXXVII 4 (June/July, 1990), 21-25.

"Hoo-ha for Hollywood!" Midstream, XXXV 9 (December, 1989), 31-35.

"Three Men in a Funk," The Gettysburg Review, II 4 (autumn, 1989), 673-678.

"Reading The Alexandria Quartet," Into the Labyrinth: Essays on Lawrence Durrell, Frank Kersnowski, ed. (Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI, 1989), 117-124.

"Broadcast Jews," Midstream, XXXV No. 3 (April, 1989), 46-48.

"The Master and Margarita," "The Metamorphosis," and "Pan," Cyclopedia of Literary Characters II,

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Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1989), 984-5, 999-1000, and 1172-73.

"Telling It All: Pandictic Art," South Central Review, VI 4 (Winter, 1989), 1-10.

"Breaking the Tyranny of Silence," The Texas Observer, Vol. 80 (March 24, 1989), 6-7.

"Philip Roth," "J. D. Salinger," and "Jean-Paul Sartre," Cyclopedia of World Authors, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1989), 1282-83; 1297-98; 1315-17.

"Philip Roth, The Facts"--Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena, Ca.: Salem Press, 1989), Vol. 2, 492-496.

"Truman Capote, In Cold Blood"--Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series, Vol. 2, 704-708.

"Arthur Miller, Timebends: A Life"--Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series, Vol. 4, 1533-1537.

"Inter-American Bookfair: A Reminder That Cultural Transmission Is Neither Standard Nor Automatic," The Texas Journal, March, 1989, 8-11.

"The Last Temptation of Christ: Blaming the Jews," Midstream, XXXIV 9 (December, 1988), 33-37.

"Film Festivals Are As Scarce As Hound's Tooth," Tonantzin: Chicano Arts in San Antonio, VI 1 (November, 1988), 15.

"God and Man at Universal Studios," The Texas Observer, Vol. 80 No. 18 (September 16, 1988), 18-19.

"Cinema of/as Atrocity: Shoah's Guilty Conscience," The Gettysburg Review, I 1 (January, 1988), 22-30.

"Jean-Paul Sartre," Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1988), Vol. III, 713-723.

Contributor, Dictionary of American Literary Characters, Benjamin Franklin V, ed. (New York: Facts on File, 1990).

"The Game of the Name: College Team Onomastics," Cimarron Review, LXXXII (January,1988), 13-18.

"The Reader in/of The Alexandria Quartet," Studies in the Novel, Vol. 20, No. 1 (spring, 1988), 78-85.

"Blaise Cendrars, Sutter's Gold," Masterplots II: World Fiction (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1988), Vol. IV, Frank N. Magill, ed., 1538-41.

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"Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf," Masterplots II: World Fiction, 399-402.

"Max Frisch, Homo Faber," Masterplots II: World Fiction, 608-11.

"Les Hors d'oeuvres du carnaval romanesque: The Preface as Vorspeise," L'Esprit Créateur, XXVI, no. 3 (fall, 1987), 19-25.

"The Cinematic Novel: Tracking a Concept," Modern Fiction Studies, XXXIII No. 3 (autumn, 1987), 467-77.

"John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman," Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1987), 549-552.

"James Dickey," Popular American Fiction, Walton Beacham, ed., (Washington, D. C.: Research Publishing, 1987), 343-47. Update, 1990.

"Henry David Thoreau," Great Lives from History: A Biographical Survey, American Series, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1987), 2310-14.

"Jews, Beasts, and Americans," Studies in American Jewish Literature, 5, ed. Daniel Walden (Albany: SUNY Press, 1986), 61-68.

"The Country of the Month Club," Newsweek, February 3, 1986, 8.

"Philip Roth, 'The Conversion of the Jews,'" Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1986), 429-32.

"Woody Allen, 'The Kugelmass Episode,'" Masterplots II: Short Story Series, 1276-79.

"Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song," Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Vol. I, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1986), 486-90.

"Bernard Malamud, The Natural," Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Vol. III, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press, 1986), 1119-23.

"Circadia in Paris: The One-Day Novel and the French," Stanford Literature Review, Vol. 2 No. 2 (fall, 1985), 209-26.

"Blaise Cendrars' L'Or as Cinematic Novel," POST SCRIPT: Essays in Film and the Humanities, Vol. IV No. 3 (spring/summer, 1985), 16-28.

"Philip Roth," Research Guide to Biography and Criticism, II, Walton Beacham, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Research Publishing, 1985), 2298-2310.

"We Lost It at the Movies," Midstream, XXX 10 (December, 1984), 43-5.

"Speaking of Newspeak," NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR in 1984: Perspectives on George Orwell's Novel, Marjorie Smelstor, ed. (San Antonio: UTSA, 1984), 6-19.

"Philip Roth's Ghost Writer," Comparative Literature Studies, II 2 (summer, 1984), 175-85.

"1984: The Future is Now," VivaSA (in San Antonio Light), January 1, 1984, 9-13.

"Fictive Freedom Through The French Lieutenant's Woman," University of Mississippi Studies in English, New Series IV (1983), 159-67.

"The Fearful Symmetry of John le Carré," The Georgia Review, XXXVIII 4 (winter, 1983), 905-11.

"Reading Himself and Kafka: The Apprenticeship of Philip Roth," Notes of the Kafka Society of America, VI 1/2 (June/December 1983), 25-33.

"Cendrars, L'Or, and the Cinematic Novel," Feuille de Routes, 9 (April, 1983), 23-35.

"Mailer's Strains of Fact: The Executioner's Song," Southwest Review, LXVIII 2 (spring, 1983), 126-33.

"Remembering the Alamo," The Texas Observer, LXXV 1 (January 14, 1983), 15-16.

"The Sadist Reader," French Literature Series (South Carolina), X (1983), 21-31.

"The Onomastics of Professional Sports Teams," Studies in Popular Culture, VI (1983), 70-76.

"Philip Roth," Critical Survey of Long Fiction, VI, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press, 1983), 1000-1002.

"Mikhail Bulgakov," Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Foreign Language Series, I, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press, 1983), 202-10.

"Everybody Comes to Roquentin's: La Nausée and Casablanca," Mosaic, XVI 1-2 (winter-spring, 1983), 103-12; also in: Film/Literature, George E. Toles, ed. (Winnipeg: Mosaic, 1983).

"Rating Rating Rating," Academe, 68 6 (November-December, 1982), 29.

"The Great American Novel 1938-83," Mid-American Review, II 2 (fall, 1982), 129-38.

"The Yellow Rose of Texas," The Journal of American Culture, V 2 (summer, 1982), 45-8. Reprinted:

Alamo Lore and Myth Organization Newsletter, IV 3 (September, 1982), 5-9. Excerpted in Dallas Times Herald, August 22, 1982, 37A-38A. Reported on by San Antonio Express-News, KBUC, 98 other radio stations, etc. "The Alamo Butcher," San Antonio Express-News, November 11, 1979, 4H.

"Confessions of a Rank Amateur," Newsweek, May 24, 1982, 19.

"Homo Technicus Adrift: The Novels of MacDonald Harris," Western Humanities Review, XXXVI 1 (spring, 1982), 59-67.

"Clyde Brion Davis," Dictionary of Literary Biography, V 9, J. Martine, ed. (Detroit: Gale Research, 1981), 184-87.

"Georgia on My Mind," Moment, V 10 (November, 1980), 50-55.

"Ut Coitus Lectio: The Poet as Lovemaker," The Georgia Review, XXIV 2 (summer, 1980), 303-12.

"Baseball and the Jews," Present Tense, VII 2 (winter, 1980), 8-10.

"The Days of Max Frisch," Book Forum, IV 3 (1979), 431-35.

"Singular Third Person: Camus's La Peste," Kentucky Romance Quarterly, XXIV (1979), 499-507.

"A Conspiracy Theory of Literature: Thoreau and You," The Georgia Review, XXXII 4 (winter, 1978), 808-19.

"Circles, Squares, and the Mind's Ear in St. Petersburg," Papers on Language and Literature, XIV 4 (fall, 1978), 464-69.

"Malamud in France," Comparative Literature Studies, XV 3 (September, 1978), 305-15.

"Grand Openings and Plain: The Poetics of First Lines," SUB-STANCE, XVII (autumn, 1977), 139-47.

"Mark Twain in the Middle East," The Texas Quarterly, XX (summer, 1977), 35-41.

"The Mirror and the Magic Lantern in A la recherche," Neophilologus, LXI 1 (January, 1977), 43-47.

"The Great American Novel: Clyde Brion Davis's Melding of Tradition," Southwest Review, LXII 1 (winter, 1977), 65-72.

"The Tenants in the House of Fiction," Studies in the Novel, VIII 4 (winter, 1976), 458-67. Reprinted in Joel Salzberg, ed., Critical Essays on Bernard Malamud (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987), pp. 165-173.

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"The Fiction of Self-Begetting," Modern Language Notes, XCI 6 (December, 1976), 1243-56.

"Portrait of the Artist as Necrophage: Aharon Megged's Living on the Dead," Modern Fiction Studies, XXII 2 (summer, 1976), 231-37. Reprinted: Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Today's Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, and Other Creative Writers (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1978), IX, 374-75.

"The Self-Begetting Novel," Western Humanities Review, XXX 2 (spring, 1976), 119-28.

"Raising the Net: Iris Murdoch and the Tradition of the Self-Begetting Novel," English Studies, LVII 1 (February, 1976), 43-50.

"Beckett's Fatal Dual," Romance Notes, XVI 2 (winter, 1975), 268-73.

"Dropping Names: The Poetics of Titles," Criticism, XVII, 2 (spring, 1975), 152-67.

"La Nausée as Self-Begetting Novel," Symposium, XXVIII 4 (winter, 1974), 303-14.

"Imagining the Novel Dead: Recent Variations on a Theme by Proust," Modern Language Quarterly, XXXVI (March, 1974), 45-55.

"'Quelqu'un' in Robert Pinget's Fiction," Mosaic, V 3 (spring, 1972), 137-44; also in: New Views of the European Novel, R. G. Collins and Kenneth McRobbie, eds. (Winnipeg: Univ. of Manitoba Press, 1972).

3. Book Reviews:

Paul Auster, Report from the Interior--Boston Globe, November 23, 2013: http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2013/11/23/book-review-report-from-interior-paul- auster/LXc7sSyhkJmIaER2jIh1xJ/story.html#!. Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge--San Francisco Chronicle, September 20, 2013: http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Bleeding-Edge-by-Thomas-Pynchon-4831196.php. Dara Horn, A Guide for the Perplexed--Forward, September 13, 2013: http://forward.com/articles/183455/dara-horn-offers-her-own-guide-for-the-perplexed/ Paul Yoon, Snow Hunters--Dallas Morning News, August 12, 2013: http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20130812-book-review-snow-hunters-by-paul- yoon.ece. Louis Begley, Memories of a Marriage--San Francisco Chronicle, August 11, 2013: http://www.sfchronicle.com/books/article/Memories-of-a-Marriage-by-Louis-Begley-4721508.php. Philipp Meyer, The Son--The Texas Observer 105 7 (July, 2013): 30-1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah--Barnes & Noble Review, May 28, 2013: http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/Americanah/ba-p/10613.

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Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout, ed. The Selected Letters of Willa Cather--Dallas Morning News, April 27, 2013: http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20130427-book-review-the-selected-letters- of-willa-cather-edited-by-andrew-jewell-and-janis-stout.ece. Vladimir Nabokov, Mister Morn--San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 2013: http://www.sfchronicle.com/books/article/Nabokov-s-The-Tragedy-of-Mister-Morn-4449150.php. J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus--Indian Express, April 13, 2013: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-gospel-according-to-jm-coetzee/1101662/0. Rebecca Miller, Jacob’s Folly--Dallas Morning News, March 16, 2013: http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20130316-book-review-jacobs-folly-by-rebecca- miller.ece. James Lasdun, Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked--Dallas Morning News, February 22, 2013: http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20130222-book-review-give-me-everything- you-have-on-being-stalked-by-james-lasdun.ece. Marco Roth, The Scientists--Forward, October 12, 2012: http://forward.com/articles/163720/marco- roths-frustration-and-triumph/ Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country--Barnes and Noble Review, October 11, 2012: http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/There-Was-a-Country-A-Personal-History-of- Biafra/ba-p/9047 Steve Stern, The Book of Mischief: New and Selected Stories--Dallas Morning News, September 28, 2012: http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20120928-book-review-the-book-of-mischief- new-and-selected-stories.ece Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton--San Francisco Chronicle, September 23, 2012: http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Joseph-Anton-by-Salman-Rushdie-3884698.php Andrew Porter, In Between Days--The Texas Observer, September, 2012: 38. Chris Harbach, The Art of Fielding--Magill’s Literary Annual 2012, John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2012): 49-52. Bettany Hughes, The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life--Magill’s Literary Annual 2012: 351-54. Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk--The Texas Observer, May, 2012: 38. Also: Critical Mass, February 1, 2013: http://bookcritics.org/blog. Daniel Sada, Almost Never--Dallas Morning News, April 20, 2012: http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20120420-mexican-literary-star-delivers-almost-never- tackles-love-lust.ece Louis Begley, Schmidt Steps Back--Barnes & Noble Review, April 4, 2012: http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/Schmidt-Steps-Back/ba-p/7341. Franz Werfel, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh--Barnes & Noble Review, March 15, 2012: http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/The-Forty-Days-of-Musa-Dagh/ba-p/7031; Salon.com, March 18, 2012, http://www.salon.com/writer/steven_g_kellman/. Leslie Epstein, Liebestod: Opera Bouffa with Leib Goldkorn--Chicago Tribune Printers Row, February 26, 2012, p. 15: http://eeditionpr.chicagotribune.com/Olive/ODE/PrintersRow/ Nathan Englander, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank--Dallas Morning News, February 24, 2012: http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20120224-book-review-what-we- talk-about-when-we-talk-about-anne-frank-by-nathan-englander.ece

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Paul Hendrickson, Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961--Los Angeles Review of Books, January 17, 2012: http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/16006213564/biography- sideways; Critical Mass, February 12, 2012: http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/steven-g.-kellman-on- hemingways-boat Quim Monzó, Guadalajara--American Book Review 32 6 (September/October, 2011): 16. Ha Jin, Nanjing Requiem--Dallas Morning News, October 23, 2011: 8E. William Kennedy, Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes--San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2011, FE-2. Irène Némirovsky, All Our Worldly Goods--Forward, September 16, 2011: http://forward.com/articles/142377/. Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance--Dallas Morning News, August 28, 2011: 5E. Miroslav Penkov, East of the West: A Country in Stories--Dallas Morning News, June 26, 2011: 5E. Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work--Magill’s Literary Annual 2011, ed. John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 2011): Vol. 1, 179-82. Olga Grushin, The Line—Magill’s Literary Annual 2011: Vol. 2. 496-99. Bharati Mukherjee, Miss New India--Barnes and Noble Review, May 18, 2001: http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/Miss-New-India/ba-p/4883. Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews--Dallas Morning News, May 8, 2011: 7E. Alicia Borinsky, One-Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile--San Antonio Current, May 4-10, 2011: 18. Asaf Schurr, Motti--Forward, May 13, 2011: http://forward.com/articles/137489/. Arthur Phillips, The Tragedy of Arthur--Dallas Morning News, April 24, 2011, 5E. Jeff Martin and C. Max Magee, ed. The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books--The Texas Observer Vol. 103 No. 6 (March 25, 2011): 17. Tom Grimes, Mentor--The Texas Observer, Vol. 103 No. 5 (March 11, 2011): 25-26. Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Montecore--Barnes and Noble Review, February 10, 2011: http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/Montecore/ba-p/4199. Nicholas Delbanco, Lastingness: The Art of Old Age--Dallas Morning News, February 6, 2011: http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20110204-book-review-lastingness_by-nicholas- delbanco.ece. Sarah Bakewell, How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne--Critical Mass, February 4, 2011: http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/31_books_in_31_days_steven_g._kellman_on_sarah_bakewells_how _to_live_or_a_l/. Bruce Machart, The Wake of Forgiveness--The Texas Observer, Vol. 102 No. 24 (January 21, 2011): 23. Nicole Krauss, The Great House—Forward, October 20, 2010, http://forward.com/articles/132293/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_c ontent=70944581&utm_campaign=October292010&utm_term=READMORE David Todd & David Weisman, ed., The Texas Legacy Project: Stories of Courage and Conservation-- San Antonio Current, September 15-21, 2010, 23. Charles Sealsfield, The Cabin Book, or Sketches of Life in Texas--The Texas Observer, Vol. 102 No. 7 (September 17, 2010): 22.

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José Saramago, The Elephant’s Journey--Barnes and Noble Review, September 13, 2010: http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/The-Elephant-s-Journey/ba-p/3339. James L. Dickerson, Inside America’s Concentration Camps: Two Centuries of Internment and Torture- -San Antonio Current, August 25-31, 2010, 21. Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt, The Life of Irène Némirovsky, 1903–1942--Forward, July 30, 2010: http://www.forward.com/articles/129500/. David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, ed., The Texas Left--The Texas Observer, Vol. 102 No. 13 (July 23, 2010): 34. Jerzy Pilch, A Thousand Peaceful Cities--Barnes and Noble Review, July 15, 2010: http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/A-Thousand-Peaceful-Cities/ba-p/2882. Henry Roth, An American Type--Bookforum, Vol. 17 No. 2 (June/July/August 2010): 37. Jake Silverstein, Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction--San Antonio Current, April 28-May 4, 2010, 28. Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight--The Texas Observer, Vol. 102 No. 7 (April 16, 2010): 15. David Shields, Hunger Reality: A Manifesto--Chronicle of Higher Education, March 7, 2010: http://chronicle.com/article/New-Realitys-Old-Realities/64464/. Robert Cohen, Amateur Barbarians--Columbia Magazine, spring, 2010: 58-9; http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2010/reviews.html#reviews4. “Setting a Bad Example” (on Uncle Tom’s Cabin)--American Book Review Vol 31 No. 2 (January- February 2010): 7; http://americanbookreview.org/PDF/Top40BadBooks.pdf. Sally Denton, The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas--The Texas Observer, Vol. 102 No. 4 (February 19, 2010): 25-6. Aleksandar Hemon, Best European Fiction 2010--Chicago Tribune, February 14, 2010, http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/printers-row/2010/02/review-best-european-fiction-2010- steven-kellman.html#. Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life--Critical Mass, February 12, 2010, http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/30_books_in_30_days_cheever_a_life_by_blake_bailey. Larry McMurtry, Literary Life: A Second Memoir--The Texas Observer, 101 No. 23 (December 11, 2009): 27. Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals--Bookforum, December/January 2010, p. 41. Philip Roth, The Humbling--Forward, October 30, 2009: http://www.forward.com/articles/117275/#. Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith, Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life--San Antonio Current, October 21- 27, 2009: 28-9. Jacques Poulin, Translation Is a Love Affair--American Book Review, Vol. 30 No. 6 (September- October 2009): 17. Emily Fox Gordon, It Will Come to Me--The Texas Observer, 101 No. 14 (July 10, 2009): 14-15. Breyten Breytenbach, Mouroir--The Quarterly Conversation, June, 2009: http://quarterlyconversation.com/mouroir-by-breyten-breytenbach-review. Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project--Magill's Literary Annual 2009, Vol. I. John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2009): 452-55. Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth—Magill’s Literary Annual 2009, Vol. II. John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed.: 815-18.

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Ha Jin, The Writer as Migrant--Magill’s Literary Annual 2009, Vol. II: 893-96. José Maria de Eça de Queirós, The City and the Mountains--Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol . XXIX No. 1 (spring 2009): 241-42. Leslie Fiedler, The Devil Gets His Due: The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fiedler--American Book Review, Vol 30 No. 4 (May-June 2009): 7. Alec Wilkinson, The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger--The Texas Observer, 101 No. 10 (May 15, 2009): 26-27. J. Robert Lennon, Castle--The Quarterly Conversation, April, 2009: http://quarterlyconversation.com/castle-by-j-robert-lennon-review. Dara Horn, All Other Nights--Forward, April 10, 2009, http://forward.com/articles/104461/. Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty--The Texas Observer 101 No. 7 (April 3, 2009): 24-26. David McGlynn, The End of the Straight and Narrow--The Texas Observer 101 No. 1 (January 9, 2009): 28-9. Jack G. Shaheen, Guilty: Hollywood’s Verdict on Arabs After 9/11--The Texas Observer, 100 No. 23 (November 28, 2008): 22-23. Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959--San Antonio Current, November 25-December 2, 2008, 25. Paul West, The Shadow Factory--Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XXVIII No. 3. (Fall 2008): 182-83. www.dalkeyarchive.com/catalog/show_comment/ 1570. Jonathan Baumbach, YOU, or The Invention of Memory--American Book Review, Vol. 30 No. 1 (November/December 2008): 19. Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories and Other Writings--The Texas Observer, 100 No. 21 (October 31, 2008): 26-7. Philip Roth, Indignation--Huffingtonpost.com, September 10, 2008, www.huffingtonpost.com/steven- g-kellman/emindignationem-review-ph_b_125490.html. Graham Vickers, Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov’s Little Girl All Over Again--San Antonio Current, August 13-19, 2008, 29. Lara Vapnyar, Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love--San Antonio Current, August 6-12, 2008, 23. Louis Begley, The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay-- Outlook 46 No. 4 (July/August 2008): 25-26. José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons--San Antonio Current, July 30-August 5, 2008, 28. Jay Neugeboren, 1940--Huffingtonpost.com, July 21, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g- kellman/hitlers-physician_b_114136.html. Rick Bass, Why I Came West: A Memoir--The Texas Observer 100 No. 12 (July 11, 2008): 14-15. Dominique Fabre, The Waitress Was New--American Book Review, Vol 29 No. 5 (July/August 2008): 16. Gore Vidal, The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal, ed. Jay Parini--San Antonio Current, June 18-24, 2008, 23-24. Philip Roth, Exit Ghost--Magill's Literary Annual 2008, Vol. I. John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2008): 245-48. Harry Bernstein, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers-- Magill's Literary Annual 2008, Vol. I. John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2008): 376-79.

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Marie Brenner, Apples & Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found--San Antonio Current, May 28-June 3, 2008, 21. Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea-—The Texas Observer 100 No. 10 (May 16, 2008): 26-28. Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth—-San Antonio Current, May 7-13, 2008, 24. A.L. Kennedy, Day-—Bookforum 14 No. 5 (February/March, 2008): 26. Dagoberto Gilb, The Flowers—-The Texas Observer 100 No. 1 (January 11, 2008): 29-31. Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom, Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy--San Antonio Current, December 5-11, 2007: 23. Studs Terkel, Touch and Go: A Memoir--The Texas Observer 99 No. 21 (November 2, 2007): 24-25. Irène Némirovsky, Fire in the Blood--Forward, October 26, 2007: B2. Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature--San Antonio Current, September 19-25, 2007: 39. Dorothy Blodgett, Terrell Blodgett, and David L. Scott, The Land, the Law, and the Lord: The Life of Pat Neff--San Antonio Current, September 12-18, 2007: 27. Greg Woolf, Et Tu Brute? A Short History of Political Murder--The Texas Observer 99 No. 17 (September 7, 2007): 28-29. Rebecca Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity--The Review of Contemporary Fiction, XXVII No. 1 (Spring, 2007): 167-68. Richard Powers, The Echo Maker--Magill's Literary Annual 2007, Vol. I. John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2007): 249-53. Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française--Magill's Literary Annual 2007, Vol. II, John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2007): 723-26. Dara Horn, The World to Come--Magill's Literary Annual 2007, Vol II, John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2007): 877-80. Andro Linklater, The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity--San Antonio Current, July 5-10, 2007, pp. 8-9. Michael Erard, Um...Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean--The Texas Observer 99 No. 13 (June 29, 2007): 26-28. Peter Charles Melman, Landsman--San Antonio Current, June 20-26, 2007, pp. 29, 32. Václav Havel, To the Castle and Back--San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 2007, p. E-2. Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union--Chicago Tribune, May 13, 2007, Section 14, p. 3. Hanne Blank, Virgin: The Untouched History--San Antonio Current, April 4-10, 2007, 18-19. Steve Bickerstaff, Lines in the Sand: Congressional Redistricting in Texas and the Downfall of Tom DeLay--San Antonio Current, March 28-April 3, 2007, 8. Mark Hamilton Lytle, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement--San Antonio Current, March 14-20, 2007, 18-19. Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier--San Antonio Current, March 7-13, 2007, 18. Louis Begley, Matters of Honor--Forward, February 23, 2007. Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium--Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 4, 2007, L9. Harry G. Frankfurt, On Truth--San Antonio Current, January 10-16, 2007, 15-16. George Levine, Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World--San Antonio Current, January 3-9, 2007, 16-17.

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Michael B. Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present--San Antonio Current, December 20-26, 2006, pp. 18, 20. Myra MacPherson, All Governments Lie! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone--San Antonio Current, November 29-December 5, 2006, p. 20. Walter Benn Michaels, The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality--San Antonio Current, November 8-14, 2006, pp. 16-17. Florence Noiville, Isaac B. Singer: A Life--Chicago Tribune, October 15, 2006, Section 14, p. 3. Cormac McCarthy, The Road--The Texas Observer 98 No. 2 (October 20, 2006): 22-23. Moazzam Begg, Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment by the United States at Guantánamo--San Antonio Current, September 6-12, 2006, 20. Diane L. Beers, For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States--San Antonio Current, August 16-22, 2006, 19-20. Rebecca Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity--Outlook, 44 No. 4 (July/August 2006): 30-31. Joseph Epstein, Friendship: An Exposé--Forward, July 7, 2006. Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close--Magill's Literary Annual 2006, Vol. I, John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2006): 224-28. J. M. Coetzee, Slow Man--Magill's Literary Annual 2006, Vol. II, John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2006): 742-45. Tom Lutz, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America--The Texas Observer 98 No. 12 (June 16, 2006): 22-23. Gay Talese, A Writer's Life--Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 21, 2006, p. L6. John Banville, The Sea--The Review of Contemporary Fiction, XXVI 1 (spring 2006): 143-44. Philip Roth, Everyman--San Antonio Express-News, May 7, 2006. Myles Weber, Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish--The Georgia Review LIX 4 (winter 2005): 964-65. Victor Navasky, A Matter of Opinion--USA Today Magazine Vol. 134 No. 2730 (March 2006): 79-80. Bernard-Henri Lévy, American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville--The Texas Observer 98 No. 3 (February 10, 2006): 24-25. Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies--Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 1, 2006, K8. Richard Schickel, Elia Kazan: A Biography--Chicago Tribune, January 1, 2006. Reiner Stach, Kafka: The Decisive Years--Forward, December 25, 2005. Darlene Harbour Unrue, Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist--The Texas Observer 97 No. 24 (December 16, 2005): 22-23. John Worthen, D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider--San Antonio Express-News, November 6, 2005. Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment--Los Angeles Times, October 16, 2005, p. R12. Derek Parker Royal, ed., Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author--Philip Roth Studies 1 No. 2 (Fall 2005): 177-79. Ian McEwan, Saturday--The Review of Contemporary Fiction XXV No. 2 (Summer 2005): 132-33. Aaron Hamburger, Faith for Beginners--Forward, October 7, 2005, p. 13. Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream--The Texas Observer 97 No. 19 (October 7, 2005): 24-25.

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Marjorie Agosín, ed., Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America--Outlook 43 No. 5 (September/October 2005): 31-32. Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit--The Georgia Review LIX 2 (summer 2005): 431-33. Karen Olsson, Waterloo--San Antonio Current, August 25-31, 2005, p. 25. Ilan Stavans, ed., The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature--Outlook 43 No. 4 (July/August 2005): 25-26. Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men--The Texas Observer 97 No. 15 (July 22, 2005): 21-22. Also in: LareDos, October, 2005, p. 49. Paul Theroux, Blinding Light--Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 10, 2005, p. L7. Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson, Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond--The Texas Observer 97 No. 14 (July 8, 2005): 22-23. Philip Roth, The Plot Against America--Magill's Literary Annual 2005, Vol. II, John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2005): 617-21. David Markson, Vanishing Point--Magill's Literary Annual 2005, Vol. II, John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2005): 808-11. Shane White and Graham White, The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech; Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad, Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow; Florence Ridlon, A Black Physician's Struggle for Civil Rights: Edward C. Mazique, M.D.--San Antonio Current, May 12-18, 2005, 19. Wendy Lesser, ed., The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 133 No. 2720 (May 2005): 80-81. Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore--Review of Contemporary Fiction, 25 No. 1 (spring 2005): 143. Wayne Karlin, War Movies: Journeys to Vietnam, Scenes and Out-takes--The Texas Observer, 97 No. 8 (April 15, 2005): 22-23. Pearl Abraham, The Seventh Beggar--Forward, February 18, 2005, p. 8. David L. Robb, Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies--The Texas Observer, 97 No. 3 (February 4, 2005): 22-23. Carlos Fuentes, This I Believe: An A to Z of a Life--Chicago Tribune, January 30, 2005, Section 14, p. 5. Steven Mintz, Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood--San Antonio Current, December 22-28, 2004, 16-17. USA Today Magazine, Vol. 133 No. 2718 (March 2005): 81. Kay Bailey Hutchison, American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country--The Texas Observer, 96 No. 22 (November 19, 2004): 22-23. Imre Kertesz, Liquidation; Sandor Marai, Casanova in Bolzano; Slimane Benaissa, The Last Night of a Damned Soul; Orhan Pamuk, Snow; Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness--Chicago Tribune, November 7, 2004, p. 5. Edgardo Cozarinsky, The Bride From Odessa: Stories--Forward, October 8, 2004, 16. Jonathan Rosen, Joy Comes in the Morning--San Francisco Chronicle, September 26, 2004. Gish Jen, The Love Wife--Atlanta Journal and Constitution, September 19, 2004, L4. Evelyn Nien-ming Ch'ien, Weird English--The Texas Observer, 96 No. 15 (July 30, 2004): 26-27. Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 133 No. 2710 (July 2004): 80. Jim Cullen, The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation--Magill's Literary

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Annual 2004, Vol. I , John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2004): 26-29. J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello--Magill's Literary Annual 2004, Vol. I., John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2004): 219-223. John Graves, Myself and Strangers: A Memoir of Apprenticeship--The Texas Observer, 96 No. 11 (June 4, 2004): 22-23. J. Robert Lennon, Mailman--The Georgia Review LVIII 1 (spring 2004): 197-98. Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 132 No. 2708 (May 2004): 81. Wheeler Winston Dixon, ed., Film and Television After 9/11--The Texas Observer, 96 No. 8 (April 23, 2004): 28-29. Chang-rae Lee, Aloft--Chicago Tribune, March 7, 2004, 14/1, 3. Barbara Wyllie, Nabokov at the Movies: Film Perspectives in Fiction--Slavonic and East European Review, Vol 82 No. 4: . Sutton E. Griggs, Imperium in Imperio--The Texas Observer, 96 No. 4 (February 27, 2004): 24-25. Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe, Crimes of Art + Terror--The Texas Observer, 96 No. 2 (January 30, 2004): 26-27. Jimmy Carter, The Hornet's Nest--The Texas Observer, 96 No. 1 (January 16, 2004): 32-33. Jim Crace, Genesis--San Francisco Chronicle, January 4, 2004. Sergio Troncoso, The Nature of Truth: A Novel--Forward, December 26, 2003, 8. Jay Neugeboren, Open Heart: A Patient's Story of Life-Saving Medicine and Life-Giving Friendship-- USA Today Magazine, 132 No. 2702 (November, 2003): 81. Paul Zakrzewski, ed., Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction From the Edge--Forward, October 31, 2003, 10. Yaakov Shabtai, Past Continuous--The Review of Contemporary Fiction XXIII 3 (Fall 2003): 121-22. Reprinted in: Context 14 (2003): 37. Derek Bok, Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education--USA Today Magazine 132 No. 2700 (September 2003): 81. Jim Cullen, The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation--USA Today Magazine 132 No. 2700 (September 2003): 80-1. Ryan Gilbey, It Don't Worry Me: The Revolutionary American Films of the Seventies--The Texas Observer, July 4, 2003, 24-25. Ian McEwan, Atonement--Magill's Literary Annual 2003, Vol. I , John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2003): 42-45. Joseph Epstein, Snobbery--Magill's Literary Annual 2003, Vol. II, John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2003): 784-87. Javier Marías, The Man of Feeling--The Review of Contemporary Fiction XXIII 2 (summer 2003): 132-33. Esteban Buch, Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History--The Texas Observer, June 6, 2003, 24-25. Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake--San Antonio Current, May 29-June 4, 2003, 22. Riccardo Orizio, Talk of the Devil--San Antonio Current, May 1-7, 2003, 22. Richard Helms, A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency--The Texas Observer, April 25, 2003, 26-27. Mark Royden Winchell, "Too Good to Be True": The Life and Work of Leslie Fiedler--Review of Contemporary Fiction XXIII 1 (spring 2003): 167-8. Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing--Chicago Tribune, January 12, 2003, 14/1,4. Mark Edmundson, Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference--USA Today Magazine 131 No. 2692

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(January 2003): 81. A. S. Byatt, A Whistling Woman--Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 5, 2003, E4. Morris Dickstein, Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970--The Virginia Quarterly Review 79 1 (Winter 2003): 173-77. Milan Kundera, Ignorance--Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 8, 2002, D4. Diane Osen, The Book That Changed My Life: Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists--The Texas Observer, November 22, 2002, 22-23. Francis Davis, Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael--The Texas Observer, October 25, 2002, 26-27. Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions--Forward, October 11, 2002. Arthur Ocean Waskow and Phyllis Ocean Berman, A Time For Every Purpose Under Heaven-- Moment 27 4 (August, 2002): 110. Mark C. Carnes, ed. Invisible Giants: Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation But Missed the History Books--USA Today Magazine, 131 2686 (July, 2002): 80-1. J. M. Coetzee, Youth: Scenes From Provincial Life II--The Texas Observer, 94 14 (July 19, 2002): 26- 27. Nancy Milford, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay--Magill's Literary Annual 2002, Vol. II, John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2002): 722-26. Willie Morris, Taps--Magill's Literary Annual 2002, Vol. II, John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2002): 773-76. Also: Willie Morris, Taps--The Texas Observer, April 27, 2001. Mark Crispin Miller, The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder--San Antonio Current, June 6-12, 2002, 19-20. Yann Martel, Life of Pi--Chicago Tribune, May 19, 2002, 14/6. Kenneth Turan, Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made--The Texas Observer, May 26, 2002, 24-25. Jan Reid, The Bullet Meant for Me--San Antonio Current, April 4-10, 2002, 20. Ilana Abramovitch and Sean Galvin, ed., Jews of Brooklyn--The Jewish Journal of San Antonio, April, 2002, 32. Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing--Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 17, 2002, C5. David Grossman, Be My Knife--Chicago Tribune, February 27, 2002, 14/2. William Kennedy, Roscoe--Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 13, 2002, B6. Frank Thompson, Texas Hollywood: Filmmaking in San Antonio Since 1910--San Antonio Current, Dec 27, 2001-Jan 2, 2002, 14-15. Herta Müller, The Appointment--San Francisco Chronicle, December 23, 2001, 5. Ilan Stavans, On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language--San Antonio Current, December 20-26, 2001, 18. Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat--Chicago Tribune, November 18, 2001, 14/2. Rainer Nägele, Echoes of Translation: Reading Between Texts--Monatschefte 93 3 (fall 2001). David Hajdu, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Fariña, and Richard Fariña--USA Today Magazine 130 No. 2674 (July 2001): 78. José Saramago, All the Names--Magill's Literary Annual 2001, Vol. I, John D. Wilson and Steven G.

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Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2001): 15-18. Also: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 3, 2000, G5. Philip Roth, The Human Stain--Magill's Literary Annual 2001, Vol. II, John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Pres, 2001): 427-31. Paul Theroux, Hotel Honolulu--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 3, 2001. Willie Morris, Taps--The Texas Observer, April 27, 2001. William E. Leuchtenberg, ed. American Places: Encounters with History--USA Today Magazine 129 No. 2670 (March 2001): 79. Allegra Goodman, Paradise Park--Chicago Tribune Books, February 25, 2001, 1, 4. Don DeLillo, The Body Artist--Chicago Tribune Books, January 7, 2001. Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine, Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages-- USA Today Magazine 129 No. 2668 (January 2001): 79. Lary May, The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way--The Texas Observer, November 17, 2000, 19-21. Carlos Fuentes, The Years with Laura Díaz--Chicago Tribune, November 5, 2000, 5. Ha Jin, The Bridegroom--San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 8, 2000. Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 10, 2000, C4. Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin--San Francisco Chronicle, September 3, 2000, 1, 6. Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 25, 2000, L4. A. B. Yehoshua, A Journey to the End of the Millennium--Magill's Literary Annual 2000, Vol. 1, John D. Wilson, ed. (Pasadena, Ca.: Salem, 2000): 453-56. Claire Messud, The Last Life--Magill's Literary Annual 2000, Vol. 1, John D. Wilson, ed. (Pasadena, CA.: Salem, 2000): 471-74. Martin Travers, An Introduction to Modern European Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism; Werner Sollors, ed., Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature--The Journal of Modern Literature 22 (3/4): 415-16; 445-46. James J. Lorence, The Suppression of Salt of the Earth--The Texas Observer, May 26, 2000, 28-29. Saul Bellow, Ravelstein--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 16, 2000, L10. Scott Eyman, Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford--The Texas Observer, March 3, 2000, 28-29. J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace--The Texas Observer, January 21, 2000: 29-30. Studs Terkel, The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays With Those Who Make Them--The Texas Observer, December 24, 1999: 25-6. Andrei Makine, The Crime of Olga Arbyelina--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 21, 1999, K16. Roger Kahn, A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s--Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 7, 1999, 6. Leslie Epstein, Ice Fire Water--Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 31, 1999, 13. Geoff Dyer, Paris Trance--Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 20, 1999, 10-I. Jenny Offill, Last Things--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 2, 1999, L10. Aharon Appelfeld, The Iron Tracks--Magill's Literary Annual 1999, Vol. 2, John D. Wilson, ed. (Pasadena, Ca.: Salem, 1999): 422-26. Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 28, 1999, L12.

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Ariel Dorfman, Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey--USA Today 127 No. 2646 (March, 1999): 80. Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s--The Texas Observer, February 19, 1999, 36-37. A. G. Mojtabai, Soon: Tales From Hospice--The Texas Observer, January 22, 1999: 34-5. Will Blythe, ed., Why I Write: Thoughts on the Practice of Fiction--USA Today Magazine 127 2644 (January 1999): 80. Ethan Canin, For Kings and Planets--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 27, 1998, K10. Wole Soyinka, The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 20, 1998, K14. Aharon Appelfeld, The Conversion; Aharon Appelfeld, The Iron Tracks--The Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 29, 1998, 13-I. Philip Roth, I Married a Communist--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 4, 1998, K15. Julia Alvarez, Something to Declare--The Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 27, 1998, 10-I. Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones--The Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 20, 1998, 11-I. Pearl Abraham, Giving Up America--Forward, August 28, 1998, 11-12. Rolando Hinojosa, Ask a Policeman--The Texas Observer, July 31, 1998: 27-8. Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil--The Atlanta Journal- Constitution, July 26, 1998, L12. F. Sionil José, Dusk--The Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 28, 1998, 10-I. Milan Kundera, Identity--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 31, 1998, L11. Norman Mailer, The Time of Our Time--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 24, 1998, K12. Steven J. Ross, Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America--The Texas Observer 90 11 (June 5, 1998): 29, 31. Jim Shepard, Nosferatu--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 26, 1998, L10. Henry Roth, Requiem for Harlem--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 15, 1998, L11. D. M. Thomas, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 1, 1998, L10. Luc Sante, The Factory of Facts--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 15, 1998, L11; USA Today Magazine 126 2636 (May 1998): 80. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture--USA Today Magazine 126 2632 (January 1998): 80. Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle, ed., Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Blacklist--The Texas Observer, December 19, 1997: 28-9. Olivier Todd, Albert Camus: A Life--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 14, 1997, K13. And: Magill's Literary Annual 1997, Vol. 1, John D. Wilson, ed. (Pasadena, Ca.: Salem, 1998): 18-21. Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers--Pakn Treger 26 (fall, 1997): 55-57. Amos Oz, Panther in the Basement--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 9, 1997, K15. Oliver Stone, A Child's Night Dream--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 28, 1997, L10. Don DeLillo, Underworld--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 21, 1997, L10. Adele Mailer, The Last Party: Scenes From My Life with Norman Mailer; Harriet Wasserman, Handsome Is: Adventures with Saul Bellow--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 20, 1997, L8. Michael Lind, The Alamo: An Epic--The Texas Observer, July 4, 1997, 20-21.

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Paul Theroux, Kowloon Tong--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 8, 1997, L8. Saul Bellow, The Actual--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 18, 1997, L12. Norman Mailer, The Gospel According to the Son--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 11, 1997, L10. Laura Furman and Elinore Standard, ed., Bookworms: Great Writers and Readers Celebrate Reading-- USA Today Magazine, 125 2624 (May 1997): 80. Philip Roth, American Pastoral--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 27, 1997, K12. Tyler Stovall, Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 125 No. 2622 (March, 1997): 96. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed., The Dictionary of Global Culture--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 2, 1997, L11. Walter Bernstein, Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist--The Texas Observer 89 4 (February 28, 1997): 28-9. Naguib Mahfouz, Echoes of an Autobiography--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 9, 1997, L11. Gavriel Moses, The Nickel Was For the Movies: Film in the Novel From Pirandello to Puig--Modern Fiction Studies 42 4 (Winter, 1996): 921-23. Peter Hoeg, The Woman and the Ape--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 24, 1996, L8. Robert Brent Toplin, History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past; Tom Zaniello, Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Organized Guide to Films About Labor--The Texas Observer, November 22, 1996, 27-8. Marge Piercy, City of Darkness, City of Light--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 10, 1996, L12. Amos Oz, Don't Call It Night--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 3, 1996, L12. Louis Begley, About Schmidt--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 6, 1996, L8. Wole Soyinka, The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sept. 29, 1996, L10. Joan Didion, The Last Thing He Wanted--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 15, 1996, L8. Oscar Hijuelos, Mr. Ives' Christmas--Magill's Literary Annual 1996, Vol. 1, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena, Ca.: Salem, 1996): 461-64. Jane Smiley, Moo--Magill's Literary Annual 1996, Vol. 1: 473-77. Victoria Aarons, A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Memory in American Jewish Fiction--The Jewish Journal of San Antonio, August, 1996: 27. Henry Roth, From Bondage--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 14, 1996: L8. Jason Schinder, ed. Lights, Camera, Poetry!: American Movie Poems, The First Hundred Years--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 125 2614 (July 1996): 80. Milan Kundera, Slowness--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 16, 1996: L12. Roberta Kalechofsky, ed., Rabbis and Vegetarianism: An Evolving Tradition--The Animals' Agenda, 16 1 (1996): 38. Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh--The Texas Observer, Vol. 88 No. 2 (January 26, 1996): 17. E. M. Broner, Mornings and Mourning: A Kaddish Journal--Midstream, XLI 9 (Dec., 1995): 42-3. Bryce Milligan, Mary Guerrero Milligan & Angela de Hoyos, ed., Daughters of the Fifth Sun: A Collection of Latina Fiction and Poetry--The Texas Observer, Vol 87 No. 23 (Nov. 17, 1995): 19-20.

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Arthur Miller, Homely Girl, A Life; The Portable Arthur Miller; Timebends--The Nation, November 13, 1995: 579-80. Ilan Stavans, Bandido: Oscar "Zeta" Acosta and the Chicano Experience--The Texas Observer, Vol. 87 No. 20 (October 27, 1995): 19-20. James A. Swan, In Defense of Hunting--The Animals' Agenda, Vol. 15 No. 5 (September/October, 1995): 38. Georgianne Ensign, ed., Great Endings: Closing Lines of Great Novels--USA Today, Vol. 124 No. 2604 (September 1995), 96-7. Louis Begley, As Max Saw It--Magill's Literary Annual 1995, Vol. 1, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena, Ca.: Salem, 1995), 51-55. J. M. Coetzee, The Master of Petersburg--Magill's Literary Annual 1995, Vol. 2, 469-472. Allen Ginsberg, Howl: Original Draft Facsimile--USA Today, Vol. 124 No. 2602 (July 1995), 96-7. Jesùs Salvador Treviño, The Fabulous Sinkhole and Other Stories--The Texas Observer, 87 11 (June 2, 1995): 18. Linda Wagner-Martin and Cathy N. Davidson, ed., The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States--USA Today, Vol. 123 No. 2600 (May, 1995), 96. Ilan Stavans, ed., Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers--Midstream, XXXXI 3 (April, 1995), 44-5; Jewish Journal of San Antonio, 21 1 (October, 1994), 23.. Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age--USA Today, Vol. 123 No. 2598 (March, 1995), 96-7. Eleanor Wachtel, Writers & Company--USA Today, Vol. 123 No. 2596 (January, 1995), 96. Piotr Szewc, Annihilation--Midstream, XXXX 9 (December, 1994), 39. Floyd Salas, What Now My Love--The Texas Observer, November 25, 1994, 17. Patti White, Gatsby's Party: The System and the List in Contemporary Narrative--Modern Fiction Studies 40 1:161-2. Max Apple, Roommates: My Grandfather's Story--The Texas Observer, September 16, 1994, 18. James Charlton, Fighting Words: Writers Lambast Other Writers--From Aristotle to Anne Rice--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 123 No. 2592 (September, 1994), 96. Nick Trujillo, The Meaning of Nolan Ryan--The Texas Observer, August 19, 1994, 22. Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing--The Texas Observer, August 5, 1994, 18-19. Eitel Timm, Kenneth Mendoza, and Dale Gowen, eds., Textuality and Subjectivity: Essays on Language and Being--Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 39 No. 2, 444-6. Amos Oz, Fima--Magill's Literary Annual 1994, Vol. 1, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1994), 296-99. Philip Roth, Operation Shylock--Magill's Literary Annual 1994, Vol. 2, 581-85. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Poet and Dancer--Magill's Literary Annual 1994, 645-48. Larry McMurtry, Streets of Laredo--Magill's Literary Annual 1994, 769-73. Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 122 No. 2588 (May, 1994), 96. Barbara A. Chernow & George A. Vallasi, ed., The Columbia Encylcopedia--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 122 No. 2584 (January, 1994), 96. William L. Stull & Maureen P. Carroll, Remembering Ray: A Composite Biography--USA Today Magazine, Vol 122 No. 2584, 96-7.

Fred Setterberg, The Roads Taken: Travels Through America's Literary Landscapes--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 122 No. 2582 (November, 1993), 96-97. Lars Eighner, Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Street--The Texas Observer, October 1, 1993, 17; also in: In These Times, XVII 26 (November 1, 1993), 34-5. William Harmon, The Classic Hundred:All-Time Favorite Poems, USA Today Magazine, Vol. 122 No.2580 (September, 1993), 96-7. Louis Begley, The Man Who Was Late--Midstream, XXXIX 5 (June-July, 1993), 38-9. Walter Abish, Eclipse Fever--Forward, June 11, 1993, 11. Cynthia Kadohata, In the Heart of the Valley of Love--Magill's LIterary Annual 1993, Vol 1, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena: Salem, 1993), 374-77. Aharon Appelfeld, Katerina--Magill's Literary Annual 1993, Vol 1, 418-21. Robert Stone, Outerbridge Reach--Magill's Literary Annual 1993, Vol. 2, 593-596. Steve MacDonogh, ed., The Rushdie Letters: Freedom to Speak, Freedom to Write--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 121 No. 2576 (May, 1993), 95-96. Michael Medved, Hollywood Versus America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values-- Times Literary Supplement, No. 4689 (February 12, 1993), 19. Roberta Kalechofsky, ed., Judaism and Animal Rights: Classical and Contemporary Responses-- Forward, February 5, 1993, 9-10. Rosalie Maggio, The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 121 No. 2574 (March, 1993), 96. Aharon Appelfeld, Katerina--Forward, September 18, 1992, 1 & 10. Edward de Grazia, Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius-- USA Today Magazine, Vol. 121 No. 2568 (September, 1992), 96. William Zinsser, American Places: A Writer's Pilgrimage to 15 of This Country's Most Visited and Cherished Sites--USA Today Magazine, Vol.121 No. 2568 (September, 1992), 95-96. Jack Hitt, In a Word: A Dictionary of Words That Don't Exist, But Ought To--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 121 No. 2566 (July, 1992), 96-97. Larry McMurtry, The Evening Star--The Texas Observer, June 19, 1992, 16. Philip Roth, Patrimony--Magill's Literary Annual 1992, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1992), 615-618. Martin Amis, Time's Arrow--Magill's Literary Annual 1992, 821-824. Orhan Pamuk, The White Castle--Magill's Literary Annual 1992, 890-893. Peter Adam, Art of the Third Reich--The San Antonio Light, June 7, 1992, 5K. Paul Berman, ed., Debating P.C.: The Controversy Over Political Correctness on College Campuses; Lydia Minatoya, Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 120 No. 2564, 96-97. Mark Spilka & Caroline McCrackern-Flesher, eds., Why the Novel Matters: A Postmodern Perplex; Ruth Newton & Naomi Lebowitz, Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James: The Impossible Romance-- Modern Fiction Studies, XXXVII 4 (winter, 1991), 819-821. David Rosenberg, ed., The Movie That Changed My Life--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 120 No. 2562 (March, 1992), 96. Greil Marcus, Dead Elvis--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 120 No. 2562 (March, 1992), 96. Paulette Jiles, Cousins--The San Antonio Light, February 23, 1992, 7M.

Michael H. Begnal, On Miracle Ground: Essays on the Fiction of Lawrence Durrell--Deus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Journal, NS1, 1992, 143-145. George Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Philip Leininger, ed., Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 120 No. 2560 (January, 1992), 96. Paul Fussell, BAD: The Dumbing of America--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 120 No. 2558 (November, 1991), 96. G. William Jones, Black Cinema Treasures: Lost and Found--The Texas Observer, November 15, 1991, 18-19. Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, The Crown of Columbus--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 120 No. 2556 (September, 1991), 96. John Barth, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 120 No. 2554 (July, 1991), 96. Bettina Knapp, Machines, Metaphor, and the Writer: A Jungian View; L.S. Dembo, Detotalized Totalities: Synthesis and Disintegration in Naturalist, Existential, and Socialist Fiction; Martin Bock, Crossing the Shadow-Line: The Literature of Estrangement--Modern Fiction Studies, XXXVI 4 (winter 1990), 671-674. Harold Bloom and David Rosenberg, The Book of J--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 119 No. 2550 (March, 1991), 96-97. John Updike, Rabbit at Rest--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 119 No. 2548 (January, 1991), 96-97. Magill's Literary Annual 1991, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1991), 688-691. Ronald Reagan, An American Life--The Texas Observer, December 7, 1990, 19-20. Scott Bradfield, Dream of the Wolf--The New York Times Book Review, November 25, 1990, 33. William MacAdams, Ben Hecht: The Man Behind the Legend--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 119 No. 2546 (November, 1990), 95-96. Jonathan Baumbach, Separate Hours--The New York Times Book Review, July 15, 1990, 10. Philip Roth, Deception--The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 10 2 (Summer, 1990), 256-257; USA Today Magazine, Vol. 119 No. 2542, 96-97. The Diary of H. L. Mencken--Midstream, Vol. XXXVI 4 (May, 1990), 47-48. Magill's Literary Annual 1991, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1991), 211-215. MacDonald Harris, Hemingway's Suitcase--USA Today Magazine, Vol. 118 No. 2536 (May, 1990), 95-96. David Mamet, Some Freaks--Washington Post, January 2, 1990, C3. Howard P. Chudacoff, How Old Are You? Age Consciousness in American Culture--The Nation, Vol. 250 No. 6 (February 12, 1990), 211-13. Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye--Magill's Literary Annual 1990, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990), 91-94. Bernard Malamud, The People and Uncollected Stories--Magill's Literary Annual 1990, 661-664; USA Today Magazine, Vol. 118 No. 2540 (May, 1990), 95. Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine--Magill's Literary Annual 1990, 450-453; USA Today Magazine, Vol. 118 No. 2540 (May, 1990), 96. David Lodge, Nice Work--USA Today magazine, Vol. 118 No. 2536 (January, 1990), 96. Josephine Jacobsen, On the Island--The New York Times Book Review, August 27, 1989, 20. Alan Hart, Arafat: A Political Biography--Midstream, Vol. XXXV No. 5 (June/July, 1989), 58-59.

Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved--Magill's Literary Annual 1989, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1989), Vol. I, 250-253. Philip Roth, The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography--Magill's Literary Annual 1989, Vol. I, 288-292. William Kennedy, Quinn's Book--Magill's Literary Annual 1989, Vol. II, 683-686. John Updike, Self-Consciousness: Memoirs--USA Today magazine, Vol. 118 No. 2530 (July, 1989), 95-6. E. L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate--USA Today magazine, Vol. 118 No. 2530 (July, 1989), 96. Claudia J. Brodsky, The Imposition of Form: Studies in Narrative Representation and Knowledge-- Modern Fiction Studies, XXXIV 4, (Winter, 1988), 743-744. Noel Perrin, A Reader's Delight--USA Today magazine, Vol. 117 No. 2526 (March, 1989), 95-6. Karl Shapiro, The Younger Son--Washington Post, December 9, 1988, C4. Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame & Degradation in the '80s--USA Today magazine, Vol. 117 No. 2522 (November, 1988), 96. Leonard Fein, Where Are We?: The Inner Life of America's Jews--Jewish Journal of San Antonio, August, 1988, 17. Gore Vidal, Empire--Magill's Literary Annual 1988, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1988), Vol. I, 275-78. Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities--USA Today magazine, Vol. 116 No. 2514 (March, 1988), 96-97. Magill's Literary Annual 1988, Vol. I, 112-15. Arthur Miller, Timebends: A Life--USA Today magazine, Vol. 116, No. 2514 (March, 1988), 97. Michael Walzer, Interpretation and Social Criticism--Tikkun, Vol. 2 No. 5 (November/December, 1987), 77-79. Max Apple, The Propheteers--Cream City Review, Vol. 12 No. 1 (Winter, 1988), 102-104. Erica Jong, Serenissima--USA Today magazine, Vol. 116, No. 2508 (September, 1987), 96. Stephen B. Oates, ed., Biography As High Adventure: Life-Writers Speak on Their Art--USA Today magazine, Vol. 115, No. 2500 (January, 1987), 94. Vladimir Nabokov, The Enchanter--The Nation, December 13, 1986, 676-79; reprinted in: Library of Literary Criticism. William F. Buckley, High Jinx--Magill's Literary Annual 1987, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1987), Vol. I, 392-393. Aharon Appelfeld, To the Land of the Cattails--Magill's Literary Annual 1987, Vol. II, 871-874. Paul William Kingston and Jonathan R. Cole, The Wages of Writing: Per Word, Per Piece, or Perhaps--USA Today magazine, Vol. 115, No. 2498 (November, 1986), 93-94. T. R. Pearson, Off for the Sweet Hereafter--Saturday Review, September, 1986, 46-47. Roberta Smoodin, Inventing Ivanov--Cream City Review, Vol 10 No. 2 (1986), 96-98. W. P. Kinsella, The Iowa Baseball Conspiracy; and Dance Me Outside--Commonweal, CXIII 13 (July 11, 1986), 409-11. Robert Boyers, Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945--Magill's Literary Annual 1986, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Salem Press, 1986), Vol. I, 43-47. Joseph Epstein, Plausible Prejudices--Magill's Literary Annual 1986, Vol. II, 737-41. MacDonald Harris, The Little People--Saturday Review, June, 1986, 67. Yaakov Shabtai, Past Continuous--Midstream, XXXII 2 (February, 1986), 57-58. Henry de Montherlant, The Girls--Saturday Review, Nov./Dec., 1985, 70.

Patricia Meyer Spacks, Gossip--Virginia Quarterly Review, LXII 1 (winter, 1986), 150-55. Don Graham, Texas: A Literary Portrait--The San Antonio Light, December 8, 1985, 6N. Michel Tournier, The Fetishist--Magill's Literary Annual 1985, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, 1985), Vol. I, 272-75. Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs--Magill's Literary Annual 1985, 297-300. Gore Vidal, Lincoln--Magill's Literary Annual 1985, Vol. II, 570-73. Ann Beattie, Love Always--Commonweal, CXII 15 (September 6, 1985), 474-75. Peter Manso, Mailer: His Life and Times--USA Today magazine, Vol. 114, No. 2484 (September, 1985), 91-92. David Lodge, Small World--Saturday Review, August, 1985, 71-72. Dow Jones online book reviews of The Fall; The Plague; The Stranger; The Metamorphosis; Nausea; Candide; "Musée des Beaux Arts"; Notes from Underground; The French Lieutenant's Woman; Hunger; Inventing Ivanov; Hotel du Lac; A Maggot; Serenissima; Staring at the Sun; Empire; Alnilam; Rich in Love; The Bonfire of the Vanities; Timebends; The Drowned and the Saved; A Friend From England; The New Confessions; The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography; Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's; Anything For Billy; Cat's Eye; Latecomers; Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century; My Secret History; Nice Work; Ben Hecht: The Man Behind the Legend; Rabbit at Rest; Medium Cool: The Movies of the 1960s; Patrimony: A True Story; Our Game: An American Baseball History; The White Castle; Time's Arrow; Talking to High Monks in the Snow; The Juiceman's Power of Juicing; In the Heart of the Valley of Love; Katerina; Antisemtism: The Longest Hatred; Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews; The Cabin: Reminiscence and Diversions; Operation Shylock; Poet and Dancer; Talk: NPR's Susan Stamberg Considers All Things; A Tiler's Afternoon; Streets of Laredo; Fima; Literary Murder: A Critical Case; As Max Saw It; And All Our Wounds Forgiven; The Master of Petersburg; A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises; Moo; Mr. Ives' Christmas; The Search for the Perfect Language; From Bondage; Our War: What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did to Us; Slowness; The Literary Biography: Problems and Solutions; American Pastoral; Albert Camus: A Life; The Iron Tracks; Requiem for Harlem; Giving Up America; A Dangerous Friend; The Alphabet in My Hands: A Writing Life; Tulip Fever; Mr Mee; Taps; The Hothouse; Requiem for a Lost Empire; The Piano Tuner; The Wife; The World to Come; For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States; The Lazarus Project; The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Vorger Han Van Mergeren. Jerome Klinkowitz, The Self-Apparent Word; James Pinnells, Style and Structure in the Novel; C. G. Prado, Making Believe: Philosophical Reflections on Fiction--Modern Fiction Studies, XXXI 2 (summer, 1985), 449-452. William Kennedy, The Ink Truck--The San Antonio Light, January 27, 1985, 4L. Erica Jong, Parachutes and Kisses--The San Antonio Light, January 20, 1985, 7D. E. L. Doctorow, Lives of the Poets--The San Antonio Light, January 13,1985, 6K. Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich's ABC; Thierry de Navacelle, Sublime Marlene; Alexander Walker, Dietrich--The San Antonio Light, December 9, 1984, 9J. Robin Lakoff and Raquell Scherr, Face Value: The Politics of Beauty--The Nation, December 8, 1984, 622-24. D. M. Thomas, Ararat--Magill's Literary Annual 1984, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Salem Press, 1984),

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Max Frisch, Bluebeard--Magill's Literary Annual 1984, 105-7. Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs--The San Antonio Light, November 4, 1984, 7P. Mark Nelson and Miller Bonner, The Semi-Official Dallas Cowboys Haters' Handbook--The San Antonio Light, October 14, 1984, 7P. Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction; W. J. T. Mitchell, ed., The Politics of Interpretation; Laurence Lerner, ed., Reconstructing Literature; Wilson Harris, The Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination--Modern Fiction Studies, XXX 2 (summer, 1984), 399-403. Gore Vidal, Lincoln--San Antonio Light, July 1, 1984, N5. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being--The Village Voice, June 26, 1984, 43. Excerpted: Contemporary Literary Criticism. MacDonald Harris, Tenth--Voice Literary Supplement, May, 1984, 4. Max Apple, Free Agents--San Antonio Light, May 13, 1984, 6J. William Golding, The Paper Men--San Antonio Light, April 25, 1984, 12K. Mark Gabor, An Illustrated History of Girlie Magazines--San Antonio Light, April 8, 1984, 4H. Pauline Kael, Taking It All In--San Antonio Light, March 25, 1984, 12K. Amos Oz, In the Land of Israel--The Village Voice, February 14, 1984, 56-57. Hugh Best, Debrett's Texas Peerage--San Antonio Light, December 11, 1983, 4L. Philip Roth, The Anatomy Lesson--San Antonio Light, November 20, 1983, 5J. Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Penitent--San Antonio Light, October 23, 1983, 6H. Patrick McCarthy, Camus--Magill's Literary Annual 1983, Vol. I, Frank N. Magill, ed. (Salem Press: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1983), 96-100. Milan Kundera, The Joke--Magills' Literary Annual 1983, Vol. I, 363-65. Don DeLillo, The Names--Magill's Literary Annual 1983, Vol. II, 515-17. MacDonald Harris, Screenplay--Cream City Review, VIII 1-2 (1983), 188-89. Hédi Bouraoui, The Critical Strategy; David Leach, ed., Generative Literature and Generative Art--Modern Fiction Studies, XXIX 4 (winter, 1983), 812-14. Chaim Potok, The Book of Lights--Midstream, XXIX 7 (August/September, 1983), 58-59. Dorothea Straus, Under the Canopy--Midstream, XXIX 3 (March, 1983), 60-1. Jay Neugeboren, The Stolen Jew--Midstream, XXIX 2 (Feb. 1983), 61-2. Arnold Weinstein, Fictions of the Self: 1550-1800--Novel: A Forum on Fiction, XVI 1 (fall, 1982), 81-83. Jeffrey R. Smitten and Ann Daghistany, eds., Spatial Form in Narrative; Robert Con Davis, ed., The Fictional Father: Lacanian Readings of the Text; Alexander Walsh, Reflections on the Hero as Quixote--Modern Fiction Studies, XXVIII 2 (summer, 1982), 349-52. Gideon Toury, In Search of a Theory of Translation--Orbis Litterarum, XXI 1 (spring, 1982), 199-200. John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire--Commonweal, CVIII 20 (November 6, 1981), 630-31. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Palm Sunday--Lone Star Review, III 2 (April, 1981), 9, 14; syndicated in Austin American-Statesman, Dallas Times Herald, and Houston Chronicle. Erica Jong, Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones--Lone Star Review, II 3 (September/October, 1980), 5, 19. Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song--Lone Star Book Review, I 7 (December, 1979), 4, 25. John Gardner, On Moral Fiction; John W. Tilton, Cosmic Satire in the Contemporary Novel; John Orr, Tragic Realism and Modern Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel; Jeffrey L.

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Sammons, Literary Sociology and Practical Criticism: An Inquiry--Modern Fiction Studies, XXIV 4 (winter, 1978-9), 650-54. Leslie Fiedler, Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self--The New Republic, CLXXVIII 20 (May 20, 1978), 37-38. John Porter Houston, Fictional Technique in France 1802-1927: An Introduction; Brian T. Fitch, ed., Albert Camus 4: sources et influences; Germaine Brée, Camus and Sartre: Crisis and Commitment; Marthe Rosenfeld, Edmond Jaloux: The Evolution of a Novelist; George Stambolian, Marcel Proust and the Creative Encounter; Kurt Weinberg, On Gide's Prométhée: Private Myth and Public Mystification--Modern Fiction Studies, XIX 2 (summer, 1973), 284-89.

More than 700 columns and features for The San Antonio Light, August 20, 1983-January 27, 1993.

More than 1,200 film reviews for The Texas Observer, San Antonio Current, and Southern Quarterly, April 3, 1986 to present.

4. Conference Papers and Oral Presentations:

Moderator, “Biographers, Biography”--Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, October 27, 2013.

“Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue: Interlingual Predicaments”--20th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Paris, France, July 19, 2013.

“A Tale of Two Roths: Philip and Henry”--Roth@80 Conference, Newark, New Jersey, March 18, 2013.

Respondent, “Interpreting Contemporary Translingual Literature” – Modern Language Association, Boston, January 5, 2013.

Moderator, “A Conversation with Ilan Stavans”—Texas Book Festival, Austin, October 28, 2012.

“Omnilingual Aspirations: The Case of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”—ISB8/ International Symposium on Bilingualism, Oslo. June 17, 2011.

“Translingual Memoirs of the New American Immigration”—American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, April 2, 2010.

“’I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting’: Kafka’s Plea and Other Culinary Aberrations”-- keynote address, 6th Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film, and the Other Arts, UTSA, February 26, 2010.

“The Translingual Imagination”--session organizer and chair, Modern Language Association,

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Philadelphia, December 27, 2009.

“Translation: ¿Qué pasa?”—organizer and moderator of symposium at the University of Texas at San Antonio, October 2, 2009.

“Children of the Shoah: The Holocaust Through Youthful Lenses”--Conference on The Child in World Cinema, University of Texas at San Antonio, September 26, 2009.

“A Conversation with Steven G. Kellman”--session at annual convention of National Conference of Teachers of English, San Antonio, November 21, 2008.

“The Holocaust on Film”—The Legacy of the Holocaust on Contemporary Jewish Cultural Arts panel discussion, San Antonio Public Library, November 16, 2008.

“Art, Politics, and the Past”--moderator and respondent, Western Conference on British Studies, San Antonio, September 20, 2008.

“The Role of Film Criticism in Film Culture in Europe and the United States”--keynote address, European Film Conference, University of Texas at San Antonio, September 9, 2008.

“Alan Paton’s Great American South African Novel”—Cry, the Beloved Country to Lost in the Stars: A Symposium for Educators, Norfolk, Virginia, April 12, 2008.

"Lit Crit: The State of Book Criticism"—Panelist, Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, November 3, 2007.

"The Siege and the Blow-Up Over Movie Terrorism"--13th Annual Multicultural Conference, San Antonio College, April 26, 2007.

"Facing the Voice of God: Keeping the Deity Out of Sight"--Our Lady of the Lake University Literary Festival, April 16, 2007.

"Henry Roth at One Hundred: New Centennial Views"--organizer and moderator, Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, December 28, 2006.

"Henry Roth of Albuquerque"--Henry Roth Centennial, Jewish Federation of New Mexico, Albuquerque, December 7, 2006.

"Living on Writer's Block: Henry Roth and American Literature"--Purdue University, Jewish Studies Program, September 18, 2006.

"Shooting the Canon and Other Barbarous Acts"--Keynote Address to 12th Annual Multicultural Conference, San Antonio College, April 25, 2006.

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"Reviewing Reviewing"--Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Convention, San Antonio, April 7, 2006.

"Globalization and the Tyranny of Monoculture"--Conference on "Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: Globalism and its Effects on Education," UTSA, March 31, 2006.

Moderator, Panel discussion--San Antonio European Film Festival, March 20, 2006.

Chair, "Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft"--Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Austin, March 10, 2006.

"Henry Roth New Yorker"--Henry Roth Centennial Symposium, New York Public Library, February 7, 2006.

"Incubus and the Esperanto Movie Industry"--Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 28, 2005.

"The Life of Henry Roth"--Montgomery College Texas Small Press Conference and Book Fair, Conroe, Texas, November 29, 2005.

Moderator, Panel on "European Cinema in Transition"--UTSA symposium Bijou Theater, San Antonio, March 21, 2005.

"Translingual Memoirs of the New American Immigration"--Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, December 28, 2004.

"Call It Surveillance: Henry Roth and the FBI"--Modernist Studies Association, Vancouver, October 22, 2004.

"Singer on the Roof: Isaac Bashevis Singer at 100"--Beldon Library, Jewish Community Center, San Antonio, July 12, 2004.

"Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth"--UTSA Faculty Research Colloqium, April 23, 2004.

"Henry Roth's Prolonged Residence on Writer's Block"--Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Antonio, April 8, 2004.

"Translingual Memoirs of the New American Immigration"--Voices of the Other in Educational and Civic Discourses: A Research Symposium, UTSA, April 1, 2004.

Panelist, "European Cinema in Transition"--UTSA symposium, Bijou Theater, San Antonio, March 24, 2004.

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"Ghosting the Lost Generation: Geoff Dyer's Paris Trance"--Modern Language Association, San Diego, December 28, 2003.

Panelist, "Imperfect Present--Taste and Judgment After 9/11"--National Book Critics Circle, New York, March 11, 2002.

"The Unspeakable in Henry Roth"; "The Assault as Moral Conversation"--Humanities in Medicine Retreat, Texas Academy of Internal Medicine. San Antonio, February 23, 2002.

"Multilingualism as Alternative Literary Practice"--respondent, Modern Language Association, New Orleans, December 30, 2001.

"Defining Ourselves Through Language"--Gemini Ink Luncheon Lecture Series, October 23, 2001.

"Translingualism, Nabokov, and Kubrick"--American Cultural Center, Sofia, December 19, 2000.

"The Translingual Imagination"--University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, November 27, 2000.

"Adrian Lyne's Lolita"--Presentation and screening, University of Veliko Tornova, Bulgaria, November 22, 2000.

"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"--Presentation and screening, American Cultural Center, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 16, 2000.

"Sleeping with the Audience: Julia Roberts and the American Public"--American University of Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, November 13, 2000.

"'The Midwife of His Rebirth': Henry Roth and Zion"--Israel Association of American Studies, Tel- Aviv, May 26, 1999.

Moderator, "Critics Across the Arts." NBCC Public Discussion. New York University, March 8, 1999.

Panelist, "Critical Voices." San Antonio Museum of Art Feb. 2, 1999. "Sayles Goes Spanish: Hombres Armados"--Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 29, 1998.

"Translingualism and the Literary Imagination"--American Comparative Literature Association, Austin, TX, March 27, 1998.

"The Art and Science of Book Reviewing"--Panelist, National Book Critics Circle, New York, March 24, 1998.

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"Translingualism and the Literary Imagination"--University of Hyderabad, India, January 7, 1998.

"Literary Translingualism and the Case of Canadian Identity"--XIV International Conference on Canadian Studies, Pondicherry, India, January 5, 1998.

UTSA Fall Lecture Series--"The Reel West," September 24, 1997.

"Translingualism and the Literary Imagination"--Amherst College, April 10, 1997.

"Sleeping with the Audience: The Iconography of Julia Roberts"--Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Antonio, March 27, 1997.

"Translingualism as a Worldwide Phenomenon"--Plenary Address, Conference on Creative Writing in English by Non-Native Speakers, West Chester University, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1996. Forum panelist, October 26, 1996.

"Hollywood and America"--UTSA Fall Lecture Series, Sept. 25, 1966.

"Translingual Links: Samuel Beckett and J. M. Coetzee"--Assoc. of University English Teachers of South Africa, Cape Town, July 1, 1996. "Cinematic Novels and Novelistic Cinema"--The Polaris Lecture, University of Alaska at Anchorage, March 15, 1996.

"Nabokov and the Psychomorphology of Zemblan"--Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 28, 1995.

"Calls of the Wild in Literature and Film"--President's Peace Commission Conference, St. Mary's University, October 24, 1995.

Panelist, "A Literary Overview of the Post War Period"--Southern Methodist University, October 19, 1995.

"The Writing on the Bijou Wall: Print Culture in Film"--Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, April 14, 1995.

Chair, "From Print to Film"--PCA, Philadelphia, April 14, 1995.

Panelist, "H-PCAACA--The Electronic Voice of the PCA & ACA: Dreams, Realities, the People"-- PCA, Philadelphia, Apr. 13, 1995.

"Food Fights in Iowa: The Vegetarian Stranger in Current Midwest Fiction"--Popular Culture Association, Chicago, April 9, 1994.

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"Tenants, Tenets, and Tensions: Malamud's Blacks and Jews"--Modern Language Association, Toronto, December 29, 1993.

Chair, American Jewish Women Authors--American Literature Association, San Antonio, October 1, 1993.

"J. M. Coetzee and Samuel Beckett: The Translingual Link"--Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes, Brasilia, August 24, 1993.

"Reading Shilts Reading Camus Reading a Plague"--Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 28, 1991.

Chair, "Translingual Romance-Language Authors"--Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 28, 1991.

"The Trials of Recent American Film"--Popular Culture Association, Winchester, England, July 15, 1991.

"Jews and Film"--Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education, San Antonio, January 27, 1991.

"Fiction in Another Tongue: Translingualism and the Literary Imagination," Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, August 23, 1990.

"James Dickey's Deliverance As Cinematic Novel"--Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Toronto, March 10, 1990.

"The Last Temptation of the Religious Right: Cross at Universal Studios"--Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, St. Louis, April 5, 1989.

Panelist, "Who Needs a Film Festival Anyway?"--CineFestival, San Antonio, November 5, 1988.

Moderator, "Twice Removed: The Latin American Novel as North American Film," San Antonio Inter- American Bookfair, October 16, 1988.

Moderator, "Back to the Source: The Novel and Play Adapted to Film"--San Antonio Inter-American Bookfair, October 15, 1988.

Public critique of Teatro de la Esperanza production of Teo's Final Spin--Tenaz XIV, Latino Theater Conference, San Antonio, July 9, 1988.

"The Role of Critics and Criticism in Developing Audiences," panelist, Atlanta Film & Video Festival, National Alliance of Media Arts Centers Conference, Atlanta, May 20, 1988.

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"The United States as a Nation of Immigrants"--film and lecture series, Lima, Peru, January 11-15, 1988.

"Sartrean Engagement: Joining the Dialogue," Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 28, 1987.

Panelist, "Ahead at 10: The Organization and Impact of Television News Reporting in San Antonio--A Case Study," CineFestival, San Antonio, November 11, 1987.

"Bringing Hemingway to Hollywood: A Farewell to Arms and the Censors," South Central Modern Language Assoc., Houston, Oct 31, 1987. Panelist, "A Rambo Kind of Town? Film Culture in San Antonio--A Case Study," CineFestival, November 12, 1986.

"Postmodernism, Literature, and the Visual Arts," South Central Modern Language Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 9, 1985.

Chair, Amadeus section, Western Conference on British Studies, San Antonio, October 26, 1985.

"The Battological Imperative: Pandictic Art," International Comparative Literature Association, Paris, August 20, 1985.

U. T. S. A. Honors colloquium on Nausea, February 5, 1985.

"The Cinematic Novel: Evolution of a Concept," International Federation for Modern Languages & Literatures, Budapest, Aug. 24, 1984.

"Beasts, Jews, and Americans," Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association, Toronto, March 30, 1984.

"Nocturnal Combat with Norman Mailer," Modern Language Association, New York, December 28, 1983.

"The Game of the Name: College Team Onomastics," Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Assoc., Wichita, Kansas, April 25, 1983.

"Aristotelian Time and le nouveau roman," American Comparative Literature Association, Santa Barbara, California, March 26, 1983.

"Blaise Cendrars' Golden Screen: L'Or," Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, December 30, 1982.

"Philip Roth's Ghost Writer," Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, December 29, 1982.

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"Loving Reading: Ut Coitus Lectio," U. C. Berkeley Comparative Literature Colloquium, November 10, 1982.

"Sports Courts of All Sorts," Chair & Respondent, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Louisville, Kentucky, April 15, 1982.

"Escaping the Alamo Legend: The Yellow Rose of Texas," Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Louisville, April 15, 1982.

"The Sadist Reader," 10th Annual French Literature Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, March 26, 1982.

"Everybody Comes to Roquentin's--Nausea and Casablanca," South Central Modern Language Association, Austin, Texas, October 23, 1981.

"Escaping the Alamo Legend: The Yellow Rose of Texas," Popular Culture Association of the South, Mobile, Alabama, October 9, 1981.

"Loving Reading," UTSA Faculty Presentation Series, Oct. 7, 1981.

"The Onomastics of Professional Sports Teams," Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Cincinnati, March 26, 1981.

"The One-Day Novel," Modern Language Association, Houston, December 27, 1980.

"Mailer's Strains of Fact: The Executioner's Song," South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, Tennessee, November 1, 1980.

"Recent American Cinema," Georgian Film Institute, USSR, May 20, 1980.

"Contemporary American Literature," Odessa State University, U.S.S.R., April 8, 1980; Georgian Institute of Foreign Languages, March 15, 1980.

"The Sadist Reader," Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 29, 1979.

"History as Friction: The Armies of the Night," Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 28, 1979.

"The Onomastics of Professional Sports Teams," South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, October 11, 1979.

"Ut Coitus Lectio: The Poet as Lovemaker," Modern Language Association, New York, December 27,

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1978.

"A Conspiracy Theory of Literature: American Literature (Mainly Whitman) and You," International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures, Aix-en-Provence, France, August 28, 1978.

"A Conspiracy Theory of Literature: Thoreau and You," South Central Modern Language Association, Dallas, October 29, 1976.

"The Self-Begetting Novel," Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 28, 1975.

Guest lecturer on American Jewish Culture, Overseas Students Program, Tel-Aviv University, December, 1975-January, 1976.

"Squares, Circles, and Other Conscious Imagery in St. Petersburg," Philological Assoc. of the Pacific Coast, San Jose, Nov. 28, 1971.

EDITORIAL, PROFESSIONAL, AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Vice President for Membership, National Book Critics Circle, 2010- .

Editorial Board, Translation Review, 2012- .

International Advisory Board, University of Atlanta, 2009- .

Board of Directors, National Book Critics Circle, 1996-99, 1999-2002, 2009- 12, 2012-15.

Co-editor, Magill's Literary Annual, 2000- 2012.

Advisory Council, University of Atlanta Monograph Series, 2009- .

Literary Scene Editor, USA Today magazine, 1985-2010.

President, Board of Directors, Gemini Ink, 1996-2002.

Planning Committee, San Antonio Jewish Film Festival, 1992- .

National Advisory Board, Isaac Bashevis Singer Centennial Edition, Library of America, 2003-2004.

Selection Panel, NEH "Extending the Reach" Faculty Research Grants, 2002, 2004, 2009.

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PTL (Poetics & Theory of Literature), editorial secretary, 1973-75.

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