Contributors

Julian Bell is a painter based in Lewes, England. His book Natural Light:

The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science was published in June.

Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton. His books include Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American

City, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and Poverty, by America, which was published in March.

Álvaro Enrigue is a Mexican writer and professor. He lives in New York and teaches at Hofstra. His latest novel, You Dreamed of Empires, was published in January.

James Gleick’s most recent books are Time Travel and The Information. He is working on a history of the telephone.

Anjum Hasan’s latest novel is History’s Angel. She is the author of five previous works of fiction.

Anahid Nersessian is a Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. A new edition of her book Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse was published in 2022.

Fintan O’Toole is the Advising Editor at The New York Review and a columnist for The Irish Times. His most recent book is We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland.

Francine Prose is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard. Her memoir, 1974, will be published in June.

David Salle is a painter and essayist. The Brant Foundation in Greenwich, Connecticut, presented a forty-year survey of his paintings in 2021.

Ben Tarnoff’s most recent book is Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future. He works in the tech industry.

Katie Trumpener is the Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Yale, with appointments in Film and Media Studies and in Jewish Studies. She is finishing a book on cinema in the Third Reich and the German occupation of Europe.

Jack Underwood is the author of Happiness, A Year in the New Life, and NOT EVEN THIS. He cohosts the Faber Poetry Podcast and is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College.

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