Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the publisher of Restless Books. Among his most recent books are The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America, Popol Vuh: A Retelling, and Selected Translations: Poems 2000-2020. His new book, The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language, is out in January.

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
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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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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

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

Non-fictionNovember 10, 2000

September 7, 2000

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