CONTRIBUTORS
DAVID Z ALBERT is the Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia and the author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience, Time and Chance, and After Physics.
CHARLES BAXTER is the Edelstein-Keller Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota. His latest book is There’s Something I Want You to Do: Stories.
PETER BROOKS, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale, teaches at Princeton. His most recent book is Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year.
IAN BURUMA is the editor of The New York Review. His memoir, A Tokyo Romance, has just been published.
SIMON CALLOW is an English actor and director who has written books about Orson Welles, Charles Dickens, Charles Laughton, and Oscar Wilde. His latest book, Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived, is out in paperback.
DAVID COLE is the National Legal Director of the ACLU and the Honorable George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at the Georgetown University Law Center. His most recent book is Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed.
SHEILA FITZPATRICK is Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney and the author of numerous books about Soviet and twentieth-century history. Mischka’s War: A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York was published last year.
LINDSEY HILSUM is International Editor of Britain’s Channel 4 News and the author of Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution. She is currently writing a biography of Marie Colvin, a war correspondent who was killed in Syria.
TIMOTHY HYMAN’s most recent book is The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century. For his work as a painter he was elected to the Royal Academy in 2011.
NATE KLUG is the author of two books of poetry, Anyone and Rude Woods.
CLAIRE MESSUD’s latest novel is The Woman Upstairs.
FERDINAND MOUNT is the former Editor of The Times Literary
Supplement. His new book, Prime Movers, has just been published.
ANDREW O’HAGAN is the author, most recently, of The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age and the novel The Illuminations.
DARRYL PINCKNEY’s most recent book is a novel, Black Deutschland.
THOMAS POWERS’s books include The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA and Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda.
PAUL QUINN-JUDGE has reported on Russia and the former states of the USSR since 1986.
MAX RODENBECK is the South Asia Bureau Chief for The Economist.
JAMES SHAPIRO is Larry Miller Professor of English at Columbia and Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at the Public Theater. His most recent book is The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606.
ALICE SPAWLS is an editor at the London Review of Books.
CHRISTIAN WIMAN recently edited the anthology Joy: 100 Poems.
JAMES WOLCOTT is the cultural critic for Vanity Fair.