Books (As Sole Author)

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Books (As Editor)

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

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

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

(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 (Salem: Pasadena, CA,
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, 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).

 

Essays

(With Tracy Irons-Georges), Magill's Survey of American Literature (Pasadena,
CA: Salem, 2006).  8 volumes, forthcoming.

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

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

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

"Ghosting the Lost Generation: Geoff Dyer's Paris Trance," International
Review of Fiction 33 (2006): 10-18.

 "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 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.

"Latinos in American Literature."  Encyclopedia Latina, ed. Ilan Stavans
(Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2004), forthcoming.

"Leslie Fiedler."  "Vladimir Nabokov."  "Henry Roth."  Encyclopedia of
American Ethnic Literature, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson, forthcoming.

"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.

"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.

"Squaring the National Book Critics Circle."  San Antonio Current, March 22-28,
2001: 55.

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

"Austerity Measures: Paul Auster Goes to the Dogs."  The Hollins Critic XXXVII
4 (October, 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.

"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.

"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.

"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 (February-
March, 1994), 9-12.

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.

"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, 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.

"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 th
 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.

"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.

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Book Reviews

  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 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 Hornest'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 (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.