Status Updates From The Essential Ilan Stavans

Ch. 1: life in the hyphen
Stavans’s writing proficiently hits relative reference points, that are rich in history, entomology and social relevance.

Like an eager child, he dumps out names of authors and political movements from the most robust treasure chest and shares with academic joy!

So much is packed in!

Ilan Stavans has some interesting – even if not very original – insights into Mexican culture and identitt, but reading one essay after the other, he starts to repeat himself. Still, some great stuff in here

Opinionated, smart and obnoxious, Ilan Stavans writes essays that would be good enough without the quotes of other essayists and philosophers scattered all over the text. This is why I prefer reading science or analytic philosophy