If Don Quixote were to ride around La Mancha today, he'd probably be tilting at power pylons rather than at windmills. The vast dusty plains where the errant knight roamed ...

Don Quixote’s transformation from nobleman to knight-errant is particularly profound given the events in Europe at the time the novel was published. Spain had been reconquered by Christian ...

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Ilan Stavans about his book, Quixote: The Novel and the World. Stavans was inspired by the Miguel de Cervantes' classic, Don Quixote, which turns 400 this year.

Some have read the book. No one knows it better than Ilan Stavans, a professor at Amherst College. Miguel Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) published Don Quixote of La Mancha in two parts, in 1605 ...

Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” represents the soul of Spain perhaps in a way no other novel has achieved, says Rodriguez-Cepeda, 65. He first read it as a 12-year-old schoolboy in Madrid.

Ilan Stavans's new book, Don Quixote: The Novel and the World, examines Don Quixote's legacy, 4oo years later. Don Quixote is one of those books whose influence is so far-reaching as to be almost ...

Last year, a panel of 100 writers from around the world picked "Don Quixote" as the greatest novel of all time. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Edith Grossman, who wrote the most-recent translation of ...

Today, Latino marriage equality and immigration reform activists can find solidarity in Cervantes' Don Quixote through the universality of love. The idea that life is a quest is not new, but the ...

I nviting more than 100 artists from different performance genres, asking them to create individual pieces based on "Don Quixote" and then showcasing the works in a massive Manhattan office space ...