Contributors

Kwame Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at NYU. His latest books are As If: Idealization and Ideals and The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity.

Neal Ascherson is the author of Black Sea, Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland, and the novel Death of the Fronsac, among other books. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Christopher Benfey is the Mellon Professor of English Emeritus at Mount Holyoke. His most recent book is If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years.

Emily Berry is the author of the poetry collections Dear Boy, Stranger, Baby, and

Unexhausted Time.

Peter Brooks is the author of the recent Balzac’s Lives and Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative, to be published in October.

Joshua Cohen’s most recent novel, The Netanyahus, won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He is the editor of

I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader, which was published in September.

Mark Ford’s fourth book of poems, Enter, Fleeing, was published in 2018.

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

Sue Halpern is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a regular contributor to The New York Review. She is a Scholar in Residence at Middlebury.

Leslie Jamison is the author of The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, a critical memoir; two essay collections, The Empathy Exams and Make It Scream, Make It Burn; and a novel, The Gin Closet. She teaches in the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia.

Ian Johnson is the Stephen A. Schwarzman Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is writing a book on counter-histories of China. Robert Macfarlane’s books include The Old Ways, Landmarks, and, most recently,

Underland: A Deep Time Journey. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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 December.

Geoffrey O’Brien’s latest books are Where Did Poetry Come From and the poetry collection Who Goes There.

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, was published in the US in March.

Tim Parks is the author of many novels, translations, and works of nonfiction. His latest book is The Hero’s Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna.

Darryl Pinckney’s memoir, Come Back in September, will be published in October. Jenny Uglow is a biographer and cultural historian. Her new book, Sybil and Cyril: Cutting Through Time, will be published in the US in December.

Tomas Unger’s poems and essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review.

Mary Wellesley’s The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts was published last year.

Frances Wilson’s Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence won the 2022 BIO

Plutarch Award.