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The labyrinthine library in Saul Steinberg's mind was as singular as the world map drawn by his multiple emigrations. His reading life was as meticulous, as skeptical and cant-allergic, as recursive and as serially immersive as the tireless adventures of his drawing pen. His taste, moreover, was impeccable; Jessica R. Feldman brings alive the joy of following Steinberg's readerly affinities where they lead, which is to a fresh appreciation for the human-scale pleasures of the word on the modern page. --Joel Smith, Curator of Photography, The Morgan Library and Museum Feldman is one of the first to make extensive use of a huge trove of archival material provided by the Saul Steinberg Foundation and the Beinecke Library at Yale that is transforming our understanding of Steinberg's work. Feldman's use of it is exemplary. She is a dazzling interpreter of Steinberg's art. --Iain Topliss, La Trobe University The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg

Feldman is one of the first to make extensive use of a huge trove of archival material provided by the Saul Steinberg Foundation and the Beinecke Library at Yale that is transforming our understanding of Steinberg's work. Feldman's use of it is exemplary. She is a dazzling interpreter of Steinberg's art. --Iain Topliss, La Trobe University The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg

Feldman is one of the first to make extensive use of a huge trove of archival material provided by the Saul Steinberg Foundation and the Beinecke Library at Yale that is transforming our understanding of Steinberg's work. Feldman's use of it is exemplary. She is a dazzling interpreter of Steinberg's art. --Iain Topliss, La Trobe University, author of The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg The labyrinthine library in Saul Steinberg's mind was as singular as the world map drawn by his multiple emigrations. His reading life was as meticulous, as skeptical and cant-allergic, as recursive and as serially immersive as the tireless adventures of his drawing pen. His taste, moreover, was impeccable; Jessica R. Feldman brings alive the joy of following Steinberg's readerly affinities where they lead, which is to a fresh appreciation for the human-scale pleasures of the word on the modern page. --Joel Smith, Curator of Photography, The Morgan Library and Museum

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Jessica R. Feldman is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Virginia and author of Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience and Gender on the Divide: The Dandy in Modernist Literature.

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