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 last year. Thomas A. Clark lives in Scotland. His poetry collections include The Threadbare Coat and, most recently, that which appears.

Ariel Dorfman, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Literature at Duke, is the author of the play Death and the Maiden and the novel The Suicide Museum. His novel Allegro will be published in English next year.

Jarrett Earnest’s book of photographs and writing, Valid Until Sunset, was published last year.

James Fenton is a British poet and literary critic. From 1994 to 1999 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. He was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize in 2015. He is the author of School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts and Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968–2011.

Marina Harss is a dance critic and the author of The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky’s Life in Ballet, which was published last year.

Susie Linfield teaches cultural criticism at New York University. She is the author of The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence and The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky.

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.

Darryl Pinckney’s most recent work is a memoir, Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan.

Ingrid D. Rowland is a Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway. Her book The Lies of the Artists will be published in December.

David Shulman is the author of Tamil: A Biography, among other books.

He is a Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was awarded the Israel Prize for Religious Studies in 2016. He is a longtime activist with Ta’ayush, the Arab–Jewish Partnership, in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Emily Skillings is the author of the book of poems Fort Not and the editor of Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery. She teaches creative writing at Columbia, Yale, New York University, and the New School.

Susan Tallman is an art historian. Her book Kerry James Marshall: The Complete Prints was published in November.

John Washington is a staff writer at Arizona Luminaria. His most recent book, The Case for Open Borders, was published in February.