Lacuna

<h4>Steven G. Kellman&nbsp;is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the author of&nbsp;Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth and The Translingual Imagination.</h4>

Steven G. Kellman

Unreliable Witness: On Fiona Snyckers’s “Lacuna”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Distant Fathers

Tiny Pinpoint Glimmers: On Marina Jarre’s “Distant Fathers”

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Philip Roth: The Biography

Philip Roth: A Counterlife

On Lives and Counterlives

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and the host of the NEPR podcast In Contrast. He has written&nbsp;Quixote: The Novel and the World (2015), Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America (2016), Borges, the Jew (2017), and The Wall (2018).&nbsp;&nbsp;He has recently written&nbsp;The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (Pittsburgh), and his book-long poem “The Wall” (also Pittsburgh) won the 2019 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry.

Ilan Stavans

The Fallacy of American Studies: A Conversation

Education

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Hemingway’s Boat

The Art of Slacking: Paul Hendrickson's "Hemingway's Boat"

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Steven G. Kellman&nbsp;is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the author of&nbsp;Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth and The Translingual Imagination.