Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the author of many books, including Borges, the Jew, also published by SUNY Press.

Preface

Part I. Meeting the "I"
On Self-Translation

Part II. Meditations
Alphabetizing
As It Were
Parable of Don Quixote
Finger Snapping
The Tenure Code
Transadaptation
Ellipses and I
On Clarity
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Part III. Beyond Words
On Being Misunderstood
Against Representation: A Note on Borges's Aleph
The Monkey Grammarian
Midrash on Truth
Don Quixote in Schlemieland
Dying in Hebrew
The Reading Life of Ricardo Piglia
Adiós, Chespirito

Part IV. On Fútbol
"Sudden Death"
Van Persie's Goal
Box of Resonance

Part V. Language and Politics
Trump and the Wall
Why Doesn't English Have an Academy?
Shakespeare in Prison
The Spanish Language in Latin America since Independence
Against "Diversity"
Rolling One's R's

Part VI. Conversations
The Poet's Alchemy (with Richard Wilbur)
On Silence (with Charles Hatfield)
Translating Cervantes (with Diana de Armas Wilson)
The Color of Existence (with Ryan Mihaly)
The Downpour of Inspiration (with Asymptote)
The Translingual Sensibility (with Steven G. Kellman)
Rescuing the Classics (with Lydia Davis)

Part VII. Onto Spanglish
Un Walker en Nuyol

Hamlet, Acto 2, Scene Dos [fragment] and Acto 3, Scene Uno

El Little Príncipe, Chapters I-IV

Don Quixote, Parte II, Chapter 72
Spanglish and the Royal Academy
About the Author
Index