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Product Description: This engaging study traces the development in Mexico of what Roger Caillois called le roman policier. Both novels and stories are used as self-sufficient artifacts to understand Mexico's tumultuous history since the 1910 revolution of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Ilan Stavans's vast and subtle knowledge deftly emerges in this engrossing collection of essays. Fascinated by the idea of Western civilization as a sequence of innumerable misinterpretations and misrepresentations, Stavans covers in these nineteen pieces a broad range of personal and philosophical topics with the unifying theme being the crossroads where politics and the imagination meet. His engaging and provocative topics include the shaping of Latin America's collective identity, Peru's modern history as a bloody battle between Enlightenment and darkness, critiques of Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez, his own fate as a Jew in the Southern Hemisphere, and Columbus's afterlife. (view table of contents)

A profile of Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta describes his early years with the U.S. Air Force and as a law student and chronicles his political activism in East Los Angeles that led to the 'Brown Power' movement

A profile of Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta describes his early years with the U.S. Air Force and as a law student and chronicles his political activism in East Los Angeles that led to the 'Brown Power' movement. By the author of Growing Up Latino. Reprint.

Product Description: The border between the United States and Mexico, despite attempts at containment, remains a vast and uniquely malleable yet indefinable region. With Border Culture, Ilan Stavans has collected essays representative of the tangled experiences and issues central to life between cultures...read more

Product Description: Explores Borges's infatuation with Jewish history and culture. In this volume, award-winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual llan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges's fascination with Jewish culture...read more

Product Description: Hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries, Calvert Casey and his enthralling work have until now remained eclipsed in the United States. This collection brings all of Casey’s powerful short stories and a fragment of an unfinished novel to an English-speaking audience for the first time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A richly illustrated study takes readers on a tour of the Morrow Collection of Mexican Popular Arts, including ceramic pots, textiles, and lacquer ware trays from Mexico. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Named one of the 100 best Jewish works of the twentieth century by the National Yiddish Book Center, The Centaur in the Garden is reminiscent of the Chagall paintings in which scenes of everyday Jewish life are tenderly and oddly transmuted into fantasy...read more

Product Description: Labor leader, social justice advocate, Chicano leader, and humanitarian are only some of the multifaceted renderings of César Chávez. Ilan Stavans has compiled essays and first-person narratives that capture the multiple dimensions of this storied figure...read more

Presents a collection of fifty-four short stories, including 'Gimpel the Fool,' 'Yentl the Yeshiva Boy,' and 'The Mirror.'

Presents a collection of short stories, including 'Brother Beetle' and 'The Jew from Babylon' along with ten previously unpublished stories.

Product Description: Producto de muchos años de lectura, apreciación y asimilación del arte hispánico, este excelente volumen reúne las disquisiciones del autor en torno a la idiosincrasia latina en el ámbito anglosajón, particularmente estadunidense, y sus tentáculos a lo largo y ancho de todas las Américas...read more

A Mexican-born novelist and critic examines the five major Hispanic groups in the United States--including Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Central Americans, and South Americans--describes their cultural characteristics, and draws conclusions about their eventual role in mainstream America. (Social Science) (view table of contents)

Product Description: For almost twenty years, Ilan Stavans—described by the Washington Post as "Latin America’s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast"—has interviewed path-breaking intellectuals and artists in a wide range of media...read more

Product Description: One of the leading voices in Latino literature writes about his life and work