That Miguel de Cervantes was quite likely a converso and that his masterpiece Don Quixote explores quintessential converso concerns is now widely accepted. This article extends the converso hypothesis ...

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 ...

John J. Miller is joined by Todd Mack of Hillsdale College to discuss Cervantes's Don Quixote. John J. Miller brings The Great Books podcast to a close. John J. Miller is joined by Peter Meilaender of ...

HENDERSON, THE RAIN KING (341 pp.) —Saul Bellow—Viking ($4.50). Is Don Quixote the portrait of a Christian saint? W. H. Auden argues that it is, that Don Quixote sees his mission as “the World—that ...

A MAN CALLED CERVANTES—Bruno Frank—Viking ($2.50). In 50 words Thomas Carlyle said most of what is actually known about the man who wrote Don Quixote: “A certain strong man fought stoutly at Lepanto, ...

DULCINEA. By Ana Veciana-Suarez. Blackstone Publishing. 316 pages. $27.99. When Don Quixote needed a woman, he invented Dulcinea. She may have been perfect in his mind, but she never appeared on the ...

Here comes the season of big, and never has it looked so gargantuan, with American publishers releasing enough books to warrant an item in the Guinness Book of World Records. No fewer than 150,000 new ...

In Cervantes’s classic novel, a student tells the knight-errant Don Quixote, “The greater the fame of the writer, the more closely his books are scrutinized.” Such is the mixed blessing of fame for ...

Early in his 14th novel, “Quichotte,” (Random House, 416 pp., ★★½ out of four stars), Salman Rushdie concedes that his story is a bit of a mess. Fentanyl, gun culture, mastodons and a portal to an ...

IT is always good news to hear that new champions are coming forward to translate Don Quixote into English. It is a bold deed, well worthy a knight-errant of the pen ; and if many men make the attempt ...