Contributors

David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of History at Princeton. His latest book is Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution.

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

Ava Kofman is a reporter at ProPublica.

Ange Mlinko is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Florida. Her latest poetry collection, Venice, was published in 2022.

Jim Moore’s most recent book of poems is Prognosis.

Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern. His latest book, Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter, was published last year.

Rachel Nolan teaches Latin American history at Boston University. Her book Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala was published in January.

Andrew O’Hagan’s new novel, Caledonian Road, will be published this year. He is Editor at Large of the London Review of Books.

Emily Raboteau is the author of Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora and a Professor of English at the City College of New York. Her new book, Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse,” will be published in March.

David S. Reynolds, a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times.

Natalie de Souza teaches at the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich.

Jenny Uglow’s most recent book, about the linocutters Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power, is Sybil and Cyril: Cutting Through Time.

Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton. His books include No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding.

Natasha Wimmer is a translator from the Spanish. Her translations include works by Roberto Bolaño, Álvaro Enrigue, and Nona Fernández.

Larry Wolff is the Silver Professor of European History at NYU and the author, most recently, of The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy.