Books & Culture

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is professor of English at Magdalen College, Oxford. “Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces” is published by Jonathan Cape next February

Peter Frankopan is the author of “The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World” (Bloomsbury)

Ben Jackson is professor of modern history at Oxford. He is co-editor of “The Neo-Liberal Age? Britain Since the 1970s” (UCL Press)

Freya Johnston is a fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Her latest book is “Jane Austen, Early and Late” (Princeton)

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

Sameer Rahim is deputy editor at Prospect

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

Richard Smyth’s novel “The Woodcock” is out from Fairlight