Contributors
Christopher R. Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939–March 1942.
Simon Callow is an English actor and director who has written about Richard Wagner, Orson Welles, Charles Dickens, Charles Laughton, and Oscar Wilde. His latest book, with Derry Moore, is London’s Great Theatres.
Ama Codjoe is the author of the poetry collection Bluest Nude.
William Dalrymple is Codirector of the Jaipur Literature Festival. He is the author of The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 and, most recently, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.
Merve Emre is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Wesleyan. She is working on a book called Love and Other Useless Pursuits.
Martin Filler’s latest book is Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III: From Antoni Gaudí to Maya Lin, a collection of his writing on architecture in these pages.
Howard W. French is a Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. His most recent book, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, was published last year.
Rebecca Giggs is the author of Fathoms: The World in the Whale. Next year she will be a Literature Fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany.
Natalia Ginzburg (1916–1991) was an Italian novelist, playwright, and essayist. Alba de Céspedes (1911–1997) was a Cuban-Italian novelist and journalist who also wrote for the cinema, theater, and television. Ann Goldstein’s translation of de Céspedes’s 1952 novel Forbidden Notebook will be published in January. Alessandra Bastagli is a book editor and translator. She has translated Primo Levi, from the Italian, and Jurek Becker, from the German.
Michael Gorra is the author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece and The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War, among other books. He teaches at Smith.
Stephen Greenblatt is the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. His books include Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics.
Tobi Haslett has written about art, film, and literature for n+1, The New Yorker, Artforum, and other publications.
Ange Mlinko is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Florida. Her new poetry collection, Venice, was published in April.
Anahid Nersessian is a Professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. A new edition of her book Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse was published in November.
Nathaniel Rich’s latest book is Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade.
Corey Robin is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea,
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, and, most recently, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas.
Marilynne Robinson is the author of the essay collection What Are We Doing Here? Her latest novel, Jack, was published in 2020.
Tomasz Różycki is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and prose. His collection of poems Colonies, in Mira Rosenthal’s translation from the Polish, was a finalist for the International Griffin Poetry Prize. Mira Rosenthal is the author of The Local World, which won the Wick Poetry Prize, and of Territorial, a Pitt Poetry Series selection.
Stacy Schiff is the author of, among other books, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), Cleopatra: A Life, The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem, and, most recently, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams.
Michael Tomasky is the Editor of The New Republic and of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. His new book, The Middle Out: The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity, was published in September.
Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton. His books include No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding.
Gabriel Winslow-Yost is on the editorial staff of The New York Review.