CONTRIBUTORS

COLIN B. BAILEY is the Director of the Morgan Library and Museum. His books include Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris, which was awarded the 2004 Mitchell

Prize, and Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting.

JULIAN BARNES’s books include The Only Story and The Man in the Red Coat. His latest novel, Elizabeth Finch, will be published in the US in August.

CHRISTOPHER BENFEY is the Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His most recent book is IF: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years.

MARTIN FILLER’s latest book is Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III: From Antoni Gaudí to Maya Lin, a collection of his writing on architecture in these pages.

CAROLINE FRASER’s most recent book, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

ELISA GABBERT is the author of The Unreality of Memory and The Word Pretty. Normal Distance, a poetry collection, will be published in September.

ADAM HOCHSCHILD’s next book, American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis, will be published in October.

DEBORAH LANDAU’s fifth book of poems, Skeletons, will be published next spring. She is a Professor and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.

REGINA MARLER is the author of Bloomsbury Pie: The Making of the Bloomsbury Boom. She edited Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned America on to Sex and Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell.

JAMES MCAULEY is a Paris-based contributing columnist for The Washington Post and the author of The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France. MADELEINE SCHWARTZ is

a regular contributor to The New York Review based in Paris.

CAROLINA A. MIRANDA is the arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She was a winner of the 2017 Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism.

GARY SAUL MORSON is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and a Professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at Northwestern. His latest book is Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us, cowritten with Morton Schapiro.

ANAHID NERSESSIAN is a Professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. A new edition of her book Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse will be published in the fall.

JAMES OAKES is a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book is The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution.

ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS’s most recent book is Living Weapon. He is the Poetry Editor of The New Republic.

INGRID D. ROWLAND is a Professor of History, Classics, and Architecture at the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway. Her latest books are The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art, cowritten with Noah Charney, and The Divine Spark of Syracuse.

DAVID SALLE is a painter and essayist. The Brant Foundation in Greenwich presented a forty-year survey of his paintings last fall.

BRIAN SEIBERT is the author of What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing. He teaches at Yale.

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.