Ilan Stavans, Author . Viking $23.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-670-87763-8
The prolific Stavans, author or editor of 18 books (including The Hispanic Condition
and The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories) tries to elucidate his ethnically overdetermined condition as a Mexican Jew of Eastern European origins (his family's...
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Ilan Stavans, Author . Graywolf $17 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55597-419-0
Springing from his free-form talk at a Michigan Quarterly Review
panel discussion, this discursive and charming collection of personal essays by prolific Amherst professor Stavans (Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language
) explores his...
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Ilan Stavans, Author . Northwestern Univ./Triquarterly $22.95 (130p) ISBN 978-0-8101-2374-8
Distinguished Latin American author and scholar Stavans (Dictionary Days
; Spanglish
) explores the Diaspora of Jewish Mexico in this slight but thoughtful collection. The title story concerns the obituary of Belgian actor Maarten Soëtendrop,...
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Ilan Stavans, Author . Palgrave Macmillan $25 (237p) ISBN 978-0-312-24033-2
Literary critic Ilan Stavans highlights Hispanic literature.
Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years
Ilan Stavans
. Palgrave Macmillan
, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-24033-2
In this erudite “biographical exploration” of...
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Ilan Stavans, Author . Univ. of Michigan $60 (200p) ISBN 978-0-472-03382-9
Stavans (On Borrowed Words
) displays an admirably broad reach in these 33 essays (previously published mainly in the Nation
and the Chronicle of Higher Education
), most on Spanish-language fiction from Cervantes to Sandra Cisneros and José
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Ilan Stavans, Author Rayo $24.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-06-008775-3
With this vivid socio-linguistic study and dictionary, Stavans brings Spanglish out of el barrio and into the academy, where he has been""livin' la jerga loca"" since he first taught a much-hyped course called""The Sounds of Spanglish"" in the late '
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Ilan Stavans, Author Westview Press $20 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-438557-2
The inspiration for Hunter S. Thompson's notorious ``Samoan'' attorney in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a quixotic campaigner for Los Angeles sheriff, the hard-living Chicano activist Acosta (b. 1936) remains shrouded in myth, thanks to his...
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Ilan Stavans, Author University of New Mexico Press $14.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-8263-1645-5
Presenting intense explorations of Jewish life and identity in the Hispanic world, Stavans's stories feature individualists who relentlessly investigate spirituality beyond the realm of orthodox religion. The eponymous pianist, traumatized by her...
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Ilan Stavans. Univ. of Nebraska, $24.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-8032-7136-4
Stavans, a professor of Latin American and Latino culture at Amherst, begins this wide-ranging and fascinating collection (a follow-up to 2001’s The Inveterate Dreamer) on a light note with a nine-page comic that introduces him as “the renowned...
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Ilan Stavans and Lalo Alcaraz. Basic Books, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-465-03669-1
Following up the creators’ Latino USA: A Cartoon History (2000), this book demonstrates that comics may be the ideal form to express contrarian thinking—in this case, alternate views of American history. One panel shows a straight portrait of John...
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Ilan Stavans. Norton, $26.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-08302-6
Tracing four centuries of influence of what hispanophones affectionately call
“el Quijote,” Stavans (A Most Imperfect Union) takes an entertainingly idiosyncratic look at Don Quijote, the “novel of novels.” Offering more cultural history than...
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Ilan Stavans with Mordecai Drache, Rutgers Univ., $21.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8135-4797-8
Cultural critic Stavans (Love and Language), a Mexican-born Jew who teaches Latin American and Latino culture at Amherst College, conducts his newest conversation on paper with writer Drache. The conversational form, representing exchanges conducted
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Ilan Stavans and Jorge J. E. Gracia. Duke Univ., $22.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-8223-5634-9
Literary writer Stavans (The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature) and philosopher Gracia (Painting Borges) engage in a series of dialogues on Latino art, moving broadly through the humanities and social sciences while reaching consistent insight....
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Ilan Stavans and Santiago Cohen. Ohio State Univ, $17.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-8142-5459-2
Set in the mid-’80s, this slim graphic novel follows a college student’s encounters in a poverty-stricken Mexico City neighborhood before and after a devastating earthquake. After the student, nicknamed “El Güerito,” is mugged by homeless youth, a...
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Ilan Stavans. Pennsylvania State Univ., $19.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-271-08470-1
In this slim coda to a centuries-long literary saga, Stavans (Quixote), an Amherst professor of Latin American and Latino culture, narrates the remarkable odyssey of a 16th-century memoir, generally considered the first written by a Jew in the...
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Linda Elovitz Marshall and Ilan Stavans, illus. by Maria Mola. Kar-Ben, $19.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-7284-4928-9
Visiting his grandmother, Bobe, solo for Janucá, Danielito notices the other kids in the neighborhood playing with trompos—traditional Mexican tops. Bobe only has a dreidel on hand, but after Danielito joins the other kids and gives it an initial...
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