Contributors

Simon Callow is an English actor and director who has written about Richard Wagner, Charles Dickens, Charles Laughton, and Oscar Wilde. His most recent book, with

Derry Moore, is London’s Great Theatres. The fourth and final volume of his biography of Orson Welles will be published next year.

Anne Carson was born in Canada and now lives partly in Iceland. Wrong Norma, a new collection of her verse and prose, will be published in February.

Andrea Cohen’s latest book of poems is Everything. Her next collection, The Sorrow Apartments, will be published next year.

Mark Danner is the author of Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War and The Massacre at El Mozote, among other books. He holds the Class of 1961 Distinguished Chair at the University of California at Berkeley and is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard.

Deborah Eisenberg is the author of five collections of short stories.

Susan Faludi is the author of Backlash and, most recently, In the Darkroom.

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.

Howard W. French is a Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. His most recent book, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, was published in 2021.

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies at Oxford and a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. His essay in this issue draws on his latest book,

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, and on his 2023 Dahrendorf Lecture at Oxford. Michael Gorra is the author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece and The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War, among other books. He teaches at Smith.

Alma Guillermoprieto writes regularly for The New York Review about Latin America. She lives in Bogotá, Colombia. Esther Allen, a Professor at Baruch and the CUNY Graduate Center, is the editor and translator of José Martí: Selected Writings. She is working on a biography of Martí.

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.

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His most recent book of poems,

School of Instructions, will be published in November.

Hermione Lee’s latest book, a biography of Tom Stoppard, was published in 2021. She is working on a life of Anita Brookner.

Pankaj Mishra’s most recent book is the novel Run and Hide. A new collection of his essays will be published next year.

Catherine Nicholson is a Professor of English at Yale and the author of Reading and Not Reading “The Faerie Queene” and Uncommon Tongues.

Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Law School and the Philosophy Department. Her latest book is Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility.

Meghan O’Gieblyn is the author of God Human Animal Machine and the essay collection Interior States.

Fintan O’Toole is the Advising Editor at The New York Review, a columnist for The Irish Times, and the Leonard L. Milberg Professor of Irish Letters at Princeton. His most recent book, We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland, was published in the US last year.

Jed Perl’s latest book is Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts.

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the essay collection What Are We Doing Here? Her most recent novel, Jack, was published in 2020.

Ingrid D. Rowland is a Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway. Her latest books are Sigismondo Tizio, Historiae Senenses, Tomo VIII (1505– 1515) and, with Simone Domenico Migliorini, Curzio Inghirami, Due Commedie Inedite. Lucy Sante’s most recent book is Nineteen Reservoirs. Her memoir I Heard Her Call My Name will be published in February. She writes a regular column in Maggot Brain. Stacy Schiff is the author of, among other books, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), Cleopatra: A Life, The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem, and, most recently, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams.

Frederick Seidel’s Selected Poems was published in 2020.

Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer and a Professor of English at Harvard. She is the author of the novels The Old Drift and The Furrows and the nonfiction book Stranger Faces. She is working on an essay collection, I Am Dead, and a book based on her lectures on Toni Morrison.

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James McMullan: A New Home for Thinking About Books, 2023

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Jon Klassen: Rocks,