Books & Culture

Andrew Adonis is a contributing editor at Prospect and author of “It’s the Leader, Stupid: Changemakers in Modern Politics”

Rupert Christiansen’s “Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World” (Faber) is out in September

Cal Flyn is the author of “Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape” ( William Collins)

Kate Maltby is chair of the UK Critics’ Circle, Drama Section. She is Prospect’s theatre critic

Francesca Peacock is an arts journalist currently working on her first book

Sameer Rahim is deputy editor of Prospect

Diane Roberts is an American author, columnist, essayist, radio commentator, reviewer and professor of English at Florida State University

Sukhdev Sandhu runs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University