Mutual Impressions Writers from the Americas Reading One Another

Ilan Stavans, public intellectual, National Book Critics Circle Award nominee, recipient of the Latino Literature Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, is Professor of Spanish at Amherst College. Among his works are Growing Up Latino, The Hispanic Condition, The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories, and A Cartoon History of Latinos in the United States. He is also the editor of The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays and The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories.

"This exquisite collection of literary criticism, assembled by Stavans, offers beautifully rendered pieces by and about the most distinguished writers from the Americas. Perhaps more importantly, Stavans has shrewdly arranged these essays as a dialogue between English-speaking North and Latin America, so that the book as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts."--Publishers Weekly "This anthology offers sharp, eclectic perceptions about writing and place in the limpid language that all critics, even academics, could emulate." --Times Literary Supplement, May 11, 2001