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Ilan Stavans

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Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-American essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short story author, publisher, TV personality. He writes and speaks on American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures. He is the author of Quixote (2015) and a contributor to the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010).

Books

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Ilan Stavans, Josh Lambert
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Arthur Miller, Ilan Stavans, Jacobo Timerman
Backlands
Backlands
Ilan Stavans, Euclides da Cunha, Elizabeth Lowe
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again
Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans
Emma Zunz
The Jewish Theodicy of Jorge Luis Borges
Emma Zunz
Ilan Stavans
Spanglish
Spanglish
Ilan Stavans
The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
Ilan Stavans
El iluminado
El iluminado
Ilan Stavans
Resurrecting Hebrew
Resurrecting Hebrew
Ilan Stavans
Oy, Caramba!
Oy, Caramba!
Ilan Stavans, Associate Professor of Spanish Ilan Stavans, PhD
"Spain, Take this Chalice from Me" (and Other Poems)
"Spain, Take this Chalice from Me" (and Other Poems)
Ilan Stavans, Margaret Sayers Peden, César Vallejo
On Borrowed Words
On Borrowed Words
Ilan Stavans
The Return of Carvajal
The Return of Carvajal
Ilan Stavans
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
Ilan Stavans
The Centaur in the Garden
The Centaur in the Garden
Ilan Stavans, Moacyr Scliar, Margaret A. Neves
Reclaiming Travel
Reclaiming Travel
Ilan Stavans, Joshua Ellison
Popol Vuh
Popol Vuh
Ilan Stavans
Becoming Americans
Becoming Americans
Ilan Stavans
Love & Language
Love & Language
Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Ilan Stavans, PhD, Verónica Albin
The Return of Carvajal
The Return of Carvajal
Ilan Stavans

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