Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author, editor and translator of numerous books, including Thirteen Ways of Looking at Latino Art and Mutual Impressions: Writers of the Americas Reading One Another , both also published by Duke University Press. Stavans' television series for PBS, Conversations with Ilan Stavans , was nominated for three Emmy awards, and his writing has appeared in, and his writing has appeared in publications including the Washington Post , Newsweek , the Village Voice , the Nation , Salon , and the New York Times. Joshua Ellison is