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  • How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish

    by Ilan Stavans, Josh Lambert ...
    A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America—radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet, generous, and full of life—edited by award-winning authors and scholars Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert.Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fictional Translations

    Poems

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    The culmination of New York Times bestselling author Ilan Stavans’s distinguished career as a scholar and translator, Fictional Translations pushes the boundaries of poetry. This extraordinarily original volume includes apocryphal poems by Petrarch, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Anna Akhmatova, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Celan, Fernando Pessoa, Jorge Luis Borges, Eugenio Montale, Pablo Neruda, Yehuda ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

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  • A Pre-Columbian Bestiary

    Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    An encyclopedic collaboration between award-winning Mexican American scholar Ilan Stavans and illustrator Eko, A Pre-Columbian Bestiary features lively and informative descriptions of forty-six religious, mythical, and imaginary creatures from the Nahua, Aztec, Maya, Tabasco, Inca, Aymara, and other cultures of Latin America.From the siren-like Acuecuéyotl and the water animal Chaac to the class ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Quixote

    The Novel and the World

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world.The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into “a knight in skirts.” Freud studied ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Popol Vuh

    A Retelling

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    An inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios and introduced by renowned author, diplomat, and environmental activist Homero Aridjis.The archetypal creation story of Latin America, the Popol Vuh began as a Maya oral tradition millennia ago. In the mid ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jewish Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual and transnational nature. Stavans presents a wide range of traditions within Jewish literature and the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Jorge Luis Borges

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, philosophical ideas, and myriad other topics. This Very Short Introduction gives an engaging overview of Borges's life and the major themes of his oeuvre. Ilan Stavans places Borges in the context of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sabor Judío

    The Jewish Mexican Cookbook

    by Ilan Stavans, Margaret E. Boyle, Leah Koenig ...
    Series series A Ferris and Ferris Book
    Sabor Judío celebrates the delicious fusion of two culinary traditions, Jewish and Mexican. Written with joy and verve, Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle’s lavishly illustrated cookbook demonstrates how cooking and eating connect Jewish Mexicans across places and generations. Featuring 100 deeply personal recipes enjoyed by Jewish Mexicans around the world, the book is organized by meal—desayuno ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • I Explain a Few Things

    Selected Poems

    by Pablo Neruda, Ilan Stavans ...
    "Laughter is the language of the soul," Pablo Neruda said. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") century, a witness and a chronicler of its most decisive events, he is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, the emblem of the engaged poet, an artist whose heart, always with the people, is ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Latino USA

    A Cartoon History

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    An irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth anniversaryIn Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan Stavans captures the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the context of the English language. Combining the solemnity of so-called serious literature and history with the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Latinos in the United States

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.S. represent the second-largest concentration of Hispanic people in the entire world, after Mexico. Needless to say, the population of Latinos in the U.S. is causing a shift, not only changing the demographic landscape of the country, but also impacting national culture, politics, and spoken ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Resurrecting Hebrew

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesHere 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 featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend diagnoses “language withdrawal,” and Stavans sets out in search of his own ... Read more

    $14.99 USD