Ilan Stavans: 19 books

“American Visa is beautifully written, atmospheric, and stylish in the manner of Chandler . . . a smart, exotic crime fiction offering.” —George Pelecanos, award-winning author/producer of The Wire Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed...

Natives of the Iberian Peninsula and the twenty countries of Latin America, as well as their kinsfolk who've immigrated to the United States and around the world, share a common quality or identity characterized as la hispanidad. Or do they?In this lively, provocative book, two distinguished...

El ojo en la nuca es una conversación en tono suelto, atrevido, que incluye las hipótesis, las confesiones, los desahogos, las bromas, las anécdotas y las interpretaciones que no siempre llegan a la versión definitiva de los textos pero los sustentan en secreto. En este singular y fascinante intercambio de perspectivas, el ojo sólo podía estar en la nuca.

The Wall is a poetic exploration—across time, space, and language, real as well as metaphorical—of the U.S.-Mexican wall dividing the two civilizations, of similar walls (Jerusalem, China, Berlin, Warsaw, etc.) in history, and of the act of separating people by ideology, class, race, and other...

Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed,...