Ilan Stavans

The United States of Mestizo

by Ilan Stavans

The United States of Mestizo is a powerful manifesto attesting to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Writer Ilan Stavans meditates on how the cross-fertilizing process...

The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture, Revised and Expanded Edition

by Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans’s collection of essays on kitsch and high art in the Americas makes a return with thirteen new colorful conversations that deliver Stavans’s trademark wit and provocative analysis.

Gabriel García Márquez

by Firuz Kazemzadeh & Ilan Stavans

This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this...

Resurrecting Hebrew

by Ilan Stavans

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream...