Ilan Stavans
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English-at various points in Ilan Stavans's life, each of these has been his primary language. In this rich memoir, the linguistic chameleon outlines his remarkable cultural heritage from his birth in politically fragile Mexico, through his years as a student activist and young Zionist in Israel, to his present career as a noted and controversial academic and writer.
7) And we came outside and saw the stars again: writers from around the world on the COVID-19 pandemic
Publisher
Restless Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Writers from around the world provide essays, stories, poems and artwork detailing the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.
8) All the odes
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The first book to collect all of Pablo Neruda's odes, in any language; a bilingual edition.
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This volume is a people's history of English in the United States, told by those who have transformed it: activists, teachers, immigrants, journalists, poets, dictionary makers, actors, musicians, playwrights, preachers, presidents, rappers, translators, singers, children's authors, scientists, politicians, foreigners, students, homemakers, lexicographers, scholars, newspaper columnists, senators, novelists, and a slew of fanatics. It begins with...