Imani Perry
Imani Perry, born in Birmingham, Alabama, is a renowned American interdisciplinary scholar specializing in race, law, literature, and African American […]
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Gil Z. Hochberg
Ransford Professor of Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University New York. Her research focuses on the relationship between politics and art. Her main interest centers on questions of representation and power, particularly in the context of colonialism, orientalism,
Sébastien Berlendis
Sébastien Berlendis is a writer whose books are published by Stock and Actes Sud. His most recent book, Lungomare, was released in 2024. However, he comes from the world of images, whether photographic or cinematic, and each of his books is written from his own photographs. He makes Super 8 films of spaces, landscapes, and people who matter to him. Following Vercors
Robin Black
Robin Black’s first book, published when she was forty-eight, is a short story collection, If I loved you, I would tell you this. She has since produced a novel, Life Drawing, an essay collection, Crash Course, and a mixed-genre work, Mrs Dalloway: Bookmarked, which is both a memoir about her relationship to Woolf’s novel, and a craft analysis of that book. She has taught widely in graduate writing programs over the past twenty years, and is also an advocate for
Ben Mauk
Ben Mauk is a writer, journalist, and filmmaker of borders and peripheries. His writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, and the London Review of Books, among other publications, and has been anthologized three times in the Best American series. His first book, a work of narrative nonfiction about life
Hélène aji
Hélène Aji is Chair Professor of American literature at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, the director of research center UMR 8241
Rebecca Donner
Rebecca Donner was a 2023-24 Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and a 2023 Visiting Scholar at Oxford. In 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. In recognition of her contribution to international historical scholarship, she was elected a Fellow of
Nina Burleigh
Nina Burleigh is a journalist, best-selling author, and documentary producer. She publishes American Freakshow, a Substack on politics, and is a contributing editor at The New Republic, with frequent contributions to The New York Times and New York Magazine. Her work has been translated into Norwegian and Italian. She has authored seven nonfiction books on diverse topics—archaeological forgery,
jenny offill
Jenny Offill is the author of three novels, Last Things, Dept. of Speculation (shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award) and most recently, Weather (shortlisted for the Women’s Fiction Prize and the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine). It appeared in French as Atmosphère translated by Laëtitia Devaux and was published by Dalva. She teaches at Bard College and lives in upstate New York with her family.
Max Cavitch
Max Cavitch is Associate Professor of English and Co-director of Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also edits the award-winning blog, Psyche on Campus. His books include American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (Minnesota 2007) and Psychoanalysis and the University: Resistance and Renewal from Freud to the Present (Routledge 2025). He is the editor of Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days (Oxford