Contributors
Matthew Aucoin is a composer and conductor. His newest piece, Music for New Bodies, based on the poetry of Jorie Graham, will have its premiere in Houston in April.
John Banville’s novel The Singularities was published last year.
Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983) was an acclaimed Polish poet, playwright, and prose writer, a volume of whose work will be published in English in 2025. Clare Cavanagh is the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern. She received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature for her translations of Polish poetry.
Michał Rusinek is a translator and writer and the Director of the Wisława Szymborska Foundation. He teaches at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Dean Browne’s chapbook Kitchens at Night was published in 2022, and his first collection of poems will appear next year. He lives in Cork, Ireland.
Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism and the Director of the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan. She is the host of a new podcast series, in partnership with The New York Review and LitHub, called The Critic and Her Publics.
Tim Flannery’s books include Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Creature, Among the Islands: Adventures in the Pacific, Europe: A Natural History, and, most recently, Big Meg.
Robert Pogue Harrison is the Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature at Stanford. His latest book is Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age.
Lynn Hunt is a Distinguished Research Professor in History at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her books include Inventing Human Rights, Writing History in the Global Era, and, most recently, History: Why It Matters. Kristen Martin’s book on American orphanhood and child welfare, The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow, will be published next year.
Edward Mendelson is the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia. His complete edition of W. H. Auden’s poems was published in 2022.
Dan Nadel is the Curator-at-Large at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, which will open in 2025. His books include It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980 and Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence, 1945–1976. His biography of Robert Crumb will be published next year.
Josephine Quinn teaches ancient history at Oxford. Her book How the World Made the West will be published this year.
Camille Ralphs’s first collection of poems, After You Were, I Am, will be published in the UK this year. She is Poetry Editor at The Times Literary Supplement.
Jeffrey Toobin’s most recent book, Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, was published last year.
Mary Wellesley’s The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts was published in 2021. She is working on a book about women burned at the stake.
Jé Wilson is a writer who lives in New York City.
Dennis Zhou is on the editorial staff of The New Yorker.