Steven G. Kellman
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A Nuclear Family Comes Apart
The toxic radiation emitted by the Hardings of Houston comes from the fission of a nuclear family. The fission also accounts for the power [...] Full Story -
The Novel is Dead, Long Live the Novel
The novel springs from a sense of its own obsolescence. Novels were already passé in the 17th century, when Miguel de Cervantes dispatched Don [...] Full Story -
The Apprentice
Mentor opens with what Hollywood folk call a “meet-cute” scene. While waiting tables at Louie’s Backyard in Key West, Tom Grimes is hungry for [...] Full Story -
Motherless Texas
Except for its setting in rural Lavaca County, roughly midway between Houston and San Antonio, the opening chapter of The Wake of Forgiveness might [...] Full Story -
Cabin Fever
Lost Books of Texas In 1844, when the Boston Daily Advertiser proclaimed Charles Sealsfield “the greatest American author,” the competition was sparse. Even so, [...] Full Story
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Review
Pete Seeger’s personal motto, “Strive for simplicity, and learn to distrust it,” sounds a warning to anyone who dares write about his extraordinary life. [...] Full Story -
Review
Publishers ought to post a warning on the cover of any book by philosopher Peter Singer: Caution-Contents may cause dramatic changes in the way [...] Full Story -
Blind Guilt
Though he answers to the name Rowdy, the narrator of five of the stories in David McGlynn’s new collection is an obedient and subservient [...] Full Story -
Arab Bashing on the Big Screen
Jack G. Shaheen is the leading scourge of anti-Arab media bias. A professor emeritus of mass communications at Southern Illinois University, he has for [...] Full Story -
Pale Writer
I am the first and only serious writer that Texas has produced,” declared Katherine Anne Porter in a 1958 interview with The Texas Observer. [...] Full Story