An inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American a...

A celebration of the life and works of one of the most influential world literary figures of the ...

Tin Tan

A landmark collection of the philosophers and firebrands who sparked a country's journey through ...

Drama! Excess! Men in bee suits! Often erroneously compared to soap operas of the United States, ...

A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's workCesar Vallejo is one of the best-known L...

With the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America wasanointed the future driving for...

First published in 1973, this book traces the history of Luis de Carvajal the Younger and his fam...

Immigration is a topic on the minds of a large portion of Americans. In 2006, a series of large m...

This insightful compilation offers interdisciplinary views on soccer among Latinos.In contrast wi...

This volume compiled by Ilan Stavans examines the importance of ritual and celebration and the qu...

From the mean streets of the barrio to the house on Mango Street, from the Mambo Kings to the Gar...

In the face of social inequalities, sometimes strength for mobilization can be found through laug...

Ilan Stavans has amassed a collection of cutting-edge articles that inform readers about how Lati...

Providing food for the brain as well as the body, this wonderful collection of essays explores th...

A comprehensive, multi-lingual anthology of 20th-century Latin American Poetry in both Spanish an...

This insightful collection documents Latinos in baseball from an interdisciplinary perspective.Fr...

This important history documents the religious customs of the crypto-Jewish culture in Spain, Por...

In The Hispanic Condition,Ilan Stavans offers a subtle and insightful meditation on Hispanic soci...

The border between the United States and Mexico, despite attempts at containment, remains a vast ...

Latina literature is one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today, and the impac...

Finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Essay categoryFrom award-win...

The first major collection of writings by civil rights leader Cesar ChavezOne of the most importa...

As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in...

Labor leader, social justice advocate, Chicano leader, and humanitarian are only some of the mult...

Spanglish-a hybrid of Spanish and English-is intricately interwoven with the history and culture ...

Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Ana Maria Shua is one of the most exciting and prolific young Latin...

Jewish Latin American literature in Spanish begins with The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, a serie...

How did dictionaries come to be? When and how did they originate in a specific language? Who was ...

How did dictionaries come to be? When and how did they originate in a specific language? Who was ...

2020 Foreword INDIES Silver Winner for Anthologies

What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan ...

Based on a controversial opinion piece originally published in the New York Times, Reclaiming Tra...

Includes 'A guide for restless readers': pages 346-348.

Based on Ilan Stavans' new translation which accurately captures the verve of the original, this ...

Hailed as one of the most important Hispanic writers of his generation, Ilan Stavans is a celebra...

An exploration of the troubled odyssey of a major figure in the Civil Rights era

A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.

The whole of The Catcher in the Rye is in the Oxford English Dictionary, waiting to be unscramble...

The Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts is home to immigrants and refugees from around the gl...

Opinionated but always good-humored, this autobiography is a fascinating statement on art and the...

At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with ...

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Am...

Mexican educator and thinker Jose Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.E.B. Du Bois is to African Ame...

A pastime, delightful--Chips, cards, and a table.The riddles insightful, the future, unstable! 'W...

2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Ma...

What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan ...

In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, a...