CONTRIBUTORS
RAE ARMANTROUT’s latest book of poems, Conjure, was published last year. A new book, Finalists, will be published next year. WHITNEY COX is an Associate Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. The second edition of his book Modes of Philology in Medieval South India was recently published. ARIEL DORFMAN, a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke, is the author of the play Death
and the Maiden. His books include the children’s story The Rabbits’ Rebellion and a forthcoming novella about
the apocalypse, The Compensation Bureau. IRINA DUMITRESCU is a Professor of English Medieval Studies at the University of Bonn. Her book The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature was published in paperback last year. MICHAEL GORRA’s books include Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece and The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War. He teaches at Smith. ALAN HOLLINGHURST’s most recent novel is The Sparsholt Affair. MICHAEL KAZIN is a Professor of History at Georgetown and Emeritus Editor of Dissent. His most recent
book is War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918. His next book, What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party, will be published next year. JESSICA T. MATHEWS was President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1997 until 2015 and is now a Distinguished Fellow there. She has served in the State Department and on the National Security Council staff in the White House. SIGRID NUNEZ’s most recent novel, What Are You Going Through, was published last year. Her previous novel, The Friend, received the 2018 National Book
Award for Fiction. RACHEL POLONSKY teaches Slavonic Studies at Cambridge. Her latest book is Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History. ALAN RUSBRIDGER is the Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. For twenty years he was Editor in Chief of The Guardian. He sits on the Facebook Oversight Board. His most recent book is News and How to Use It. ADAM SHATZ is the US Editor of the London Review of Books. ANNA DELLA SUBIN’s book Accidental Gods will be published this fall. ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI (1945–2021) was an acclaimed Polish poet. His most recent volume in English, Asymmetry, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. CLARE CAVANAGH is the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern. She received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature for her translations of Polish poetry.