CONTRIBUTORS

LIZA BATKIN is on the editorial staff of The New York Review.

CHRISTOPHER R. BROWNING is Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author, most recently, of Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp. SUSAN DUNN, the Massachusetts Professor of Humanities at Williams, is the author of Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia and Jefferson’s Second Revolution. Her new book, A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America, will be published in April. CARL ELLIOTT is a Professor in the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine, among other books. JAMES FENTON is a British poet and literary critic. From 1994 until 1999, he was Oxford Professor of Poetry; in 2015 he was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize. He is the author of School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts and, most recently, Yellow Tulips: Poems, 1968–2011. TIM FLANNERY’s books include Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Creature and Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis. ROBERT GOTTLIEB has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. His essay collection Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others will be published in June. JOSHUA HAMMER is a former Newsweek Bureau Chief and Correspondent-at-Large in Africa and the Middle East. His latest book is The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts. Research for his article in this issue was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. ADAM HOCHSCHILD’s books include King Leopold’s Ghost, To End All Wars, and, most recently, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. He teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. LAURA MARSH is the Literary Editor of The New Republic. JAN-WERNER MÜLLER is a Professor of Politics at Princeton. His books include What Is Populism? and Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe. THOMAS NAGEL is University Professor Emeritus at NYU. He is the author of The View from Nowhere, Mortal Questions, and Mind and Cosmos, among other books. JED PERL’s latest book is the first volume of his biography of Alexander Calder, The Conquest of Time. JED S. RAKOFF is a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. TAMSIN SHAW is Associate Professor of European and Mediterranean Studies and Philosophy at NYU and the author of Nietzsche’s Political Skepticism. DAVID SHULMAN is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was awarded the Israel Prize for Religious Studies in 2016. His books include ŊrĦnătha: The Poet Who Made Gods and Kings and, most recently, Tamil: A Biography. TIMOTHY SNYDER is the Levin Professor of History at Yale. His new book, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, will be published in April. COLM TÓIBÍN is Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia. His latest book is the novel House of Names. LARRY WOLFF is Silver Professor of History at NYU, Executive

Director of the NYU Remarque Institute, and the author of The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon.