By Ilan Stavans
Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman knows how exile can make one an outcast. He writes about the difficulty of returning home in a provocative new memoir.
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By Ilan Stavans
Umberto Eco is a brilliant semiotician. His dissertations on language are enormously influential. But reviewer Ilan Stavans says he’s a lousy novelist.
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By Ilan Stavans
The delightful novella abounds with Moacyr Sliar’s favorite themes: human existence as a sequence of absurd and laughter as a basic prerequisite for facing the apocalypse.
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By Ilan Stavans
The death of Brazilian fabulist Moacyr Scliar, at the age of 73, on February 27, in his native Porto Alegre, represents the loss of Latin America’s most popular Jewish writer of his generation, and the most influential.
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By Ilan Stavans
How to explain the durability of Harry Houdini — subject of a new exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York?
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