Alex Nava is professor of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the author of&nbsp;The Mystical and Prophetic Thought of Simone Weil and Gustavo Gutiérrez&nbsp;(2001),&nbsp;Wonder and Exile in the New World&nbsp;(2013), and&nbsp;In Search of Soul: Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion&nbsp;(2017).

Alex Nava

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and the host of the NEPR podcast In Contrast. He has written&nbsp;Quixote: The Novel and the World (2015), Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America (2016), Borges, the Jew (2017), and The Wall (2018).&nbsp;&nbsp;He has recently written&nbsp;The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (Pittsburgh), and his book-long poem “The Wall” (also Pittsburgh) won the 2019 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry.

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Bongo Explosion: The Rebellious Dimension of Latin Music

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Alex Nava is professor of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the author of&nbsp;The Mystical and Prophetic Thought of Simone Weil and Gustavo Gutiérrez&nbsp;(2001),&nbsp;Wonder and Exile in the New World&nbsp;(2013), and&nbsp;In Search of Soul: Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion&nbsp;(2017).

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Bongo Explosion: The Rebellious Dimension of Latin Music