CONTRIBUTORS

CHRISTOPHER Mount Kipling’s Holyoke. American His BENFEY Years. most recent is the book Mellon is IF: Professor The Untold of English Story of at PETER History Emeritus BROWN at is Princeton. the Philip and His Beulah books include Rollins Augustine Professor of of Hippo: A Biography and, most recently, Treasure in Heaven: The

Holy Poor in Early Christianity. ROBYN CRESWELL teaches Comparative Literature at Yale and is the author of City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut. DEBORAH EISENBERG’s latest collection of short stories is Your Duck Is My Duck. CAROLINE FRASER’s most recent book, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, received the Pulitzer

Prize for Biography. Her first book, God’s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church, was reissued in 2019. HOWARD W. FRENCH is a Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His latest book, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, will be published in the fall. MICHAEL GREENBERG is the author of Hurry Down Sunshine and Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life. 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.

ANAHID NERSESSIAN is a Professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her most recent book is Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse.

FINTAN O’TOOLE is a columnist for The Irish Times and the Leonard L. Milberg Professor of Irish Letters at Princeton. His new book, We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland, will be published in the US in March.

NATHANIEL RICH is the author of Losing Earth, King Zeno, and, most recently, Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade.

ZOË SCHLANGER received a National Association of Science Writers award and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for her reporting on climate change and environmental health. She is writing a book about plant intelligence, The Light Eaters.

KAREN SOLIE’s latest poetry collection, The Caiplie Caves, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. SUSAN TALLMAN’s new book, on the print workshop of Niels Borch Jensen, No Plan at All, is being published in September.

GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT’s books include The Controversy of Zion, The Strange Death of Tory England, and Yo, Blair! His latest book, Churchill’s Shadow, will be published in the US in October.

RUTH BERNARD YEAZELL is Sterling Professor of English at Yale. Her books include Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names and Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel. She is writing a book about the modern reception of Vermeer.