Contributors

John Banville’s novel The Singularities was published in October.

Robyn Creswell teaches Comparative Literature at Yale and is the translator, most recently, of Iman Mersal’s poetry collection The Threshold.

Merve Emre is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Wesleyan. She is working on a book called Love and Other Useless Pursuits.

James Gleick’s most recent books are Time Travel and The Information.

Giles Harvey, a former member of The New York Review’s editorial staff, is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.

Jane Hirshfield’s most recent book is Ledger. The Asking: New and Selected Poems will be published next year. She is currently the Seamus Heaney International Visiting Poetry Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast.

Kathryn Hughes is Professor Emerita of Life Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her books include Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum, George Eliot: The Last Victorian, and The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton.

Bill Keller was the Founding Editor of the Marshall Project and a correspondent, editor, and columnist for The New York Times. He is the author of What’s Prison For?

Sigrid Nunez’s most recent novel, What Are You Going Through, was published in 2020. Her previous novel, The Friend, received the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction.

Francine Prose is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard. Her latest novel, The Vixen, was published in paperback in June.

Jed S. Rakoff is a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Daria Serenko is a Russian poet, political activist, and cofounder of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance, which was formed in February to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She was recently forced to leave Russia. Eugene Ostashevsky’s latest collection of poems is The Feeling Sonnets.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s books include The Controversy of Zion, The Strange Death of Tory England, and Yo, Blair! His most recent book, Churchill’s Shadow, was published last year.

Brenda Wineapple’s latest book is The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. She teaches in the School of the

Arts at Columbia.