Contributor
Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include The Hispanic Condition (1995), The Riddle of Cantinflas (1998), On Borrowed Words (2001), and Spanglish (2003). He edited The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays (1997), The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (2003) and Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories (2004). His work has been translated into a half-dozen languages. The Essential Ilan Stavans was published by Routledge in 2000.
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Recent Writing
On Becoming a Book at 40
I’ve been asked time and again why I published “On Borrowed Words,” my memoir about language and identity in the Mexico of the ‘60s, at the age of 40. Isn’t that an unquestionably tender age?Issue 23
Unofficial Mexico
“Con el destino jodido”—doomed by fate—this is how José Vasconcelos, historian, minister of education and presidential candidate, described Mexico shortly before his death in 1959. His is a common jeremiad.Issue 23
On Becoming a Book at Forty
Hurricanes and Carnivals
Introduction: Hurricanes and Carnivals
Hurricanes and Carnivals
