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Ilan Stavans
How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography
Ilan Stavans and Peter Gilliver Discuss the Philosophical and Pragmatic Aspects of the Oxford English Dictionary
By
Ilan Stavans
| September 29, 2025
Announcing the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.
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| November 25, 2024
American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries
Ilan Stavans on One of Democracy’s Bedrock Institutions
By
Ilan Stavans
| February 16, 2022
What Makes Jewish Literature “Jewish”?
Ilan Stavans on Belonging, Bookishness, and Memory
By
Ilan Stavans
| July 9, 2021
Ilan Stavans on Sympathy, Eroticism, and the Practice of Revision in Translation
The Author of
Selected Translations
In Conversation with Peter Cole
By
Peter Cole
| March 26, 2021
Three Authors Leave, Stay, Dream, and Long for Elsewhere
Jhumpa Lahiri, Eduardo Halfon, and Ilan Stavans in Conversation
By
Jhumpa Lahiri, Eduardo Halfon, and Ilan Stavans
| August 24, 2020
Best Reviewed
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By
Literary Hub
| November 15, 2018
Mapping the World of Jewish Latin American Literature
By
Ilan Stavans
| February 28, 2018
Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard
By
Ilan Stavans
| November 14, 2017
All Writing is a Kind of Exile
Ilan Stavans and Carlos Fonseca in Conversation
By
Literary Hub
| December 12, 2016
How Borges Taught Me to Embrace My Jewish Heritage
"Borges was my rabbinical master in a Yeshiva the Size of the Globe"
By
Ilan Stavans
| September 2, 2016
Announcing the Winner of Restless Books New Immigrant Writing Prize
Congratulations to Deepak Unnikrishnan, author of "Temporary People"
By
Literary Hub
| May 10, 2016
Hamlet
, Translated into Spanglish
Ilan Stavans Offers a New Version of English Literature's Most Famous Scene
By
Ilan Stavans
| April 25, 2016
Don Quixote
: Sloppy, Inconsistent, Baffling, Perfect
On the Magical Hyper-realism of a 400-Year-Old Classic
By
Ilan Stavans
| October 7, 2015
Jodorowsky on God, Anti-Semitism and the Uses of Poetry
A Conversation with the Man Who Didn't Make 'Dune'
By
Literary Hub
| May 29, 2015
7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's Complexities
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by
Donna Freitas
To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship Failings
November 4, 2025
by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
by
Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"