What Remains
(July 2020)
The Suitcases of Charles F. at Willard State Hospital Ilan Stavans - Essay by Jon Crispin - Photographer
Combining photography and essay, presents a speculative portrait of a Jewish immigrant living out the end of his days in New York’s midcentury mental health system.
After the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center on New York’s Seneca Lake in 1995, more than four hundred abandoned suitcases were discovered in its attic, containing thousands of personal possessions belonging to former patients. Three of the suitcases w...(Read More)
On Self-Translation
(November 2018)
Meditations on Language Ilan Stavans - Author
FINALIST - 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Essay category
A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.
From award-winning, internationally known scholar and translator Ilan Stavans comes On Self-Translation,a collection of essays and conversations on language in its multifaceted forms. Stavans discusses the way syntax is being restructured b...(Read More)
FINALIST - 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category
Explores Borges’s infatuation with Jewish history and culture.
In this volume, award-winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual Ilan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges’s fascination with Jewish culture. Despite not being Jewish himself, Borges wrote essays, poems, and sto...(Read More)
