How Dictionaries Define Us: Margaret Boyle and Ilan Stavans in Conversation
What can dictionaries tell us about cultural crises and the politics of nationality?
What can dictionaries tell us about cultural crises and the politics of nationality?
Ilan Stavans explores Sephardic literature in this excerpt from “Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction.”
What can literature teach us about our inevitable trip to “the undiscovered country”?
How a scholar built a world-class Latin American Judaica collection, and then shipped it away.
Ilan Stavans’s Selected Translations: 2000-2020 appears today from the University of Pittsburgh Press. ¤ Translation is liberation. Words caught in a...
Ilan Stavans’s Selected Translations: 2000-2020 appears today from the University of Pittsburgh Press. ¤ Translation is liberation. Words caught in a...
On xenolinguaphobia and the provincialism of American Studies.
In Jose Saramago’s novel Blindness, a pandemic sweeping the globe deprives people of sight. It simply happens; no explanation is given. Not unexpected...
In Jose Saramago’s novel Blindness, a pandemic sweeping the globe deprives people of sight. It simply happens; no explanation is given. Not unexpected...
Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert introduce their new anthology, “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish.”
Ilan Stavans and Alex Nava discuss the rhythmic, political, and spiritual dimensions of Latin American music.
Ilan Stavans narrates the rediscovery of Luis de Carvajal the Younger’s long-lost memoir.