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Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile’s Presidential Medal, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans’s work, translated into a dozen languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen. He hosted the syndicated PBS television show Conversations with Ilan Stavans. He is a cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, and Oxford. His book Quixote: The Novel and the World is out now from Norton.


American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

Ilan Stavans on One of Democracy’s Bedrock Institutions
February 16, 2022  By Ilan Stavans
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What Makes Jewish Literature “Jewish”?

Ilan Stavans on Belonging, Bookishness, and Memory
July 9, 2021  By Ilan Stavans
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Mapping the World of Jewish Latin American Literature

From Lispector to Jodorowsky, a Literature of Resistance and Dreams
February 28, 2018  By Ilan Stavans
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Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

On Ricardo Piglia and His Alter Ego, Emilio Renzi
November 14, 2017  By Ilan Stavans
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How Borges Taught Me to Embrace My Jewish Heritage

"Borges was my rabbinical master in a Yeshiva the Size of the Globe"
September 2, 2016  By Ilan Stavans
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Brief History of a Terror Attack: The Day That Changed Argentina

Ilan Stavans on the 1994 Bombing of the AMIA
July 18, 2016  By Ilan Stavans
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Hamlet, Translated into Spanglish

Ilan Stavans Offers a New Version of English Literature's Most Famous Scene
April 25, 2016  By Ilan Stavans
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Don Quixote: Sloppy, Inconsistent, Baffling, Perfect

On the Magical Hyper-realism of a 400-Year-Old Classic
October 7, 2015  By Ilan Stavans
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