CONTRIBUTORS

ANNE APPLEBAUM is a staff writer for The Atlantic. Her new

book, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, will be published in July. FARA DABHOIWALA, the author of The Origins of Sex, teaches at Princeton and is writing a global history of free speech. MERVE EMRE is Associate Professor of English Literature at Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College. Her latest book is The Ferrante Letters: An Exercise in Collective Criticism. HELEN EPSTEIN is Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Global Public Health at Bard. She is the author of Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror and The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa. ELISA GABBERT is the author of three books of poetry. Her latest book is The Word Pretty, a collection of essays. MICHAEL HOFMANN is a poet and translator from the German. His latest translation is of Heinrich von Kleist’s novella Michael Kohlhaas, and his latest book of poems, One Lark, One Horse, will be published in paperback in the US in July. He teaches at the University of Florida. LYNN HUNT is Distinguished Research Professor in History at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her books include Inventing Human Rights, Writing History in the Global Era, and, most recently, History: Why It Matters. IAN JOHNSON is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who lives in Beijing, his home for more than twenty years. His most recent book is The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao. HARI KUNZRU’s next novel, Red Pill, will be published in September. LEWIS LOCKWOOD is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Harvard and Co-Director of the Boston University Center for Beethoven Research. His new book, Beethoven’s Lives, will be published in September. ANGE MLINKO is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Florida. Her fifth book of poems is Distant Mandate. DAVID MOTADEL is Associate Professor of History at the London School of Economics and Political Science and currently a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. He is the author of Islam and Nazi Germany’s War, which was awarded the Fraenkel Prize. JED PERL’s Calder: The Conquest of Space, the second and concluding volume of his biography of the American sculptor, will be published in April. DARRYL PINCKNEY’s most recent book is Busted in New York and Other Essays. ALAN RYAN was Warden of New College, Oxford, and Professor of Political Thought. He is the author of On Politics, which will be published in paperback in the fall. DAMION SEARLS’s translation of Jon Fosse’s The Other Name will be published in the US in April; his translation of Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet will be published in November. He is currently the Translator in Residence at Princeton. DAVID SHULMAN’s Freedom and Despair: Notes from the South Hebron Hills was published in 2018. He is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was awarded the Israel Prize for Religious Studies in 2016. SUSAN TALLMAN is an art historian. She is currently working on a book about the prints of Kerry James Marshall. MICHAEL TOMASKY is a Special Correspondent for The Daily Beast, the Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. His book If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed, and How It Might Be Saved will be published in paperback in June. STEPHEN YENSER’s most recent book of poems is Stone Fruit. He is coeditor of the forthcoming volume A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill and Distinguished Research Professor in English at the University of California at Los Angeles.