Ilan Sta­vans is Lewis-Sebring Pro­fes­sor of Human­i­ties, Latin Amer­i­can and Lati­no Cul­ture at Amherst Col­lege, the pub­lish­er of Rest­less Books, and a con­sul­tant to the Oxford Eng­lish Dic­tio­nary. Sabor Judío: The Jew­ish Mex­i­can Cook­book, coau­thored with Mar­garet E. Boyle, is a final­ist in this year’s Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards. And Otrarse: Ladi­no Poems of Juan Gel­man was includ­ed by World Lit­er­a­ture Today in the best trans­la­tions of 2024. His new book, Lamen­ta­tions of Neza­hual­cóy­otl: Nahu­atl Poems, is just out.