Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His next book is Conversations on Dictionaries.

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
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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