CONTRIBUTORS
ANNE APPLEBAUM is a columnist for The Washington Post and a Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics’ Institute of Global Affairs. Her latest book is Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine.
EMILY BERRY is the Editor of The Poetry Review. She is the author of the poetry collections Stranger, Baby and Dear Boy.
PETER BROWN is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton. His books include Augustine of Hippo: A Biography and, most recently, Treasure in Heaven: The Holy Poor in Early Christianity.
SIMON CALLOW is an English actor and director who has written about Orson Welles, Charles Dickens, Charles Laughton, and Oscar Wilde. His latest book is Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived.
DAN CHIASSON’s fourth collection of poetry is Bicentennial. He teaches at Wellesley.
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE is Codirector of the Jaipur Literature Festival and the author of The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857. His new book, The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company 1739–1803, will be published in September.
MERVE EMRE is Associate Professor of English Literature at Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College. Her latest book is The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing.
ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO, who writes regularly for The New York Review about Latin America, is the author of Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution, among other books.
NICHOLAS GUYATT teaches American history at Cambridge. His latest book is Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation.
RICHARD HOLMES is the author of Shelley, Footsteps, Coleridge, The Age of Wonder, Falling Upwards, and, most recently, This Long Pursuit.
FERDINAND MOUNT is the former Editor of The Times Literary Supplement. His most recent book is Prime Movers.
MAX NELSON, a former member of the editorial staff of The New York Review, studies English at Yale.
STEPHANOS PAPADOPOULOS is a poet and translator. His most recent collection of poetry is The Black Sea.
KENNETH POMERANZ is University Professor of Modern Chinese History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of a Modern World Economy.
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.
YASMINE EL RASHIDI is the author of The Battle for Egypt: Dispatches from the Revolution and Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt.
ADAM SHATZ is a Contributing Editor at the London Review of Books.
ADAM TOOZE is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and the Director of the European Institute at Columbia. His latest book is Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.
FRANK VIVIANO is the author of Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under the Sicilian Sun.