Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His new book is Lamentations of Nezahualcóyotl: Nahuatl Poems.

The Heart Yearns Without Tears

By Ilan Stavans | Monday March 3, 2025
Illustration by Aad Goudappel

Granaries of Language

Dictionaries are far more than alphabetized collections of words

By Ilan Stavans | Monday December 2, 2024

We’ve Gone Mainstream

Latinos are invisible no more

By Ilan Stavans | Monday March 4, 2024

The Grinberg Affair

One of Mexico’s most curious missing-persons cases involves a scientist who dabbled in the mystical arts

By Ilan Stavans | Tuesday September 5, 2023

Culture Shock

The hidden history of reverse colonization

By Ilan Stavans | Wednesday March 1, 2023

Death in Yashinovka

By Ilan Stavans | Wednesday June 1, 2022

A Pre-Columbian Bestiary

Fantastic creatures of indigenous Latin America

By Ilan Stavans | Thursday August 6, 2020

The Heart Yearns Without Tears

By Ilan Stavans | Monday March 3, 2025
Illustration by Aad Goudappel

Granaries of Language

By Ilan Stavans | Monday December 2, 2024

We’ve Gone Mainstream

By Ilan Stavans | Monday March 4, 2024

The Grinberg Affair

By Ilan Stavans | Tuesday September 5, 2023

Culture Shock

By Ilan Stavans | Wednesday March 1, 2023

Death in Yashinovka

By Ilan Stavans | Wednesday June 1, 2022

A Pre-Columbian Bestiary

By Ilan Stavans | Thursday August 6, 2020

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