Contributors

Christopher de Bellaigue’s latest book is The Lion House.

Dan Chiasson is at work on Bernie for Burlington: Sanders in a Changing Vermont. He teaches at Wellesley.

Vivian Gornick is the author, most recently, of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.

Alice Gribbin is completing her first book of poems. Her essays on the arts appear on her Substack, “Notes of an Aesthete.”

Daniel Immerwahr is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern and the author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.

Joshua Leifer is a member of the Dissent editorial board. His first book, Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life, will be published next year.

Geoff Mann’s recent books are Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of

Our Planetary Future and In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution.

Johannes von Moltke is a Professor of German and of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America and a coeditor of Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence, 1944–1945, by Freya and Helmuth James von Moltke. Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector and Sontag: Her Life and Work, which received the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, was published this month.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth poetry collection, Silver, will be published in March. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook and the poetry editor of The New Republic.

James Romm is the author of several books, including Demetrius: Sacker of Cities. He oversees the Ancient Lives series from Yale University Press.

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.

Miranda Seymour is the author of In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace and a biography of Jean Rhys, I Used to Live Here Once.

Raja Shehadeh’s most recent book, We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, is a finalist for the National Book Award.

Susan Tallman is an art historian. Her book on Kerry James Marshall will be published this fall.

Marina Warner is a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her latest book is Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir, about her childhood in Cairo.

Clair Wills is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge.