Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His latest book is On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language (Viking; due out in
paperback from Penguin in summer 2002). A selection of his writings is available as The Essential Ilan Stavans (2000, Routledge). His latest books are The Poetry
of Pablo Neruda (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and Spanglish: The
Making of a New American Language (HarperCollins), forthcoming in
August and September, respectively.

FictionMay 15, 2003

The Misuses of Allegory

Is José Saramago an anti-Semite?

Ilan Stavans
FictionJanuary 23, 2003

Familia Faces

Genealogy rules Latino literature tyrannically.

Ilan Stavans
FictionSeptember 19, 2002

Buffoonery of the Mundane

"Felisberto Hernández is a writer like no other," Italo Calvino announced once, "like no European, nor any Latin American.

Ilan Stavans
Cultural Criticism and AnalysisMay 30, 2002

The Browning of America

Ilan Stavans
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PoetryFebruary 14, 2002

Lost in America

Ilan Stavans
MusicDecember 20, 2001

Trafficking in Verse

Immigrants and traffickers are the subjects of a certain style of Mexican music.

Ilan Stavans
PoliticsSeptember 27, 2001

What Spain Interrupted

Ilan Stavans
PoliticsMarch 1, 2001

The Spanish Mien

Ilan Stavans
Non-fictionNovember 10, 2000

Mr. Sammler’s Planet

Ilan Stavans
September 7, 2000

In the American Grain

After his death in 1975 at the age of 70, Lionel Trilling underwent something of an eclipse.

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Ilan Stavans

FictionMay 15, 2003

Is José Saramago an anti-Semite?

FictionJanuary 23, 2003

Genealogy rules Latino literature tyrannically.

FictionSeptember 19, 2002

"Felisberto Hernández is a writer like no other," Italo Calvino announced once, "like no European, nor any Latin American.

Cultural Criticism and AnalysisMay 30, 2002

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

PoetryFebruary 14, 2002

MusicDecember 20, 2001

Immigrants and traffickers are the subjects of a certain style of Mexican music.

PoliticsSeptember 27, 2001

PoliticsMarch 1, 2001

Non-fictionNovember 10, 2000

September 7, 2000

After his death in 1975 at the age of 70, Lionel Trilling underwent something of an eclipse.