Reading the Classics with Ilan Stavans

Award-winning New York Times bestselling author and internationally-renowned essayist, translator, and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. His work, translated into two dozen languages, has been adapted into film, TV, radio, and theater. His books include the memoir On Borrowed Words, the volume The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, a biography of the early years of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, the 3-volume set of Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, and, most recently, retellings of the Mayan book of origins Popol Vuh and the Nahuatl poems Lamentations of Nezahualcoyotl.