Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson’s non-fiction books include So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, The Psychopath Test, Them: Adventures with Extremists, Lost at Sea and The Men Who Stare At Goats. They have all been international and/or New York Times bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Most recently, Jon made two series of the acclaimed […]
Maïa Hruska
Maïa Hruska was born to a Czech-French family, raised in Germany and now lives in London, working as a lawyer, like Kafka. A graduate of University of Cambridge and Kings College London, Hruska is fluent in Czech, French, German, and English. Kafkaesque is her first book.
|Amotz Asa-El
Amotz Asa-El, The Jerusalem Post’s senior commentator and former executive editor, is a research fellow at Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman Institute. Winner of the Bnai Brith Journalism Award for his essays on the Jewish people’s future, Asa-El has been quoted, published and interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The […]
Douglas Smith
Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator, and the author of Rasputin, Former People (a Sunday Times bestseller) and The City Without Jews. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has appeared in […]
Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson was awarded his PhD in History from the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London, following earlier studies at the Universities of Oxford and Southampton. After his PhD he held the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United […]
Asaf Hanuka
Asaf Hanuka is an Israeli cartoonist and illustrator and co-creator of The Day Everything Changed: Ten Stories from October 7th. His work includes The Realist and I’m Still Alive, and he also contributed to the graphic novel Waltz with Bashir.
Omri Rose
Omri Rose is an award-winning Israeli writer, actor and voice actor whose work spans film, television, podcasts, video games and graphic novels. He is co-creator, with Ami Adan, of Echoes of October.
Jonathan Sandler
Jonathan Sandler curates the GraphicMEMOIRBlog on Substack and is the author of The English GI: A WWII Graphic Memoir.
Yardena Schwartz
Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated producer, and bestselling author of Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict, which is now in development as a feature film. Yardena’s reporting from four continents has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, […]
Anthony Freud OBE
Anthony Freud OBE is one of the world’s most distinguished opera leaders. He served as General Director, President and CEO of Lyric Opera of Chicago from 2011 to 2024, following earlier appointments as General Director of Houston Grand Opera and Welsh National Opera. Widely recognised for his artistic leadership and commitment to widening access to […]
Ben Sharoni
Ben Sharoni is a journalist and podcast host. He is an editor at Haaretz, where he has worked across the newspaper’s English and Hebrew editions. From sports and the arts to current affairs, his work explores the intersection of culture, society, and politics in Israel and beyond. His podcasts have ranged from in-depth interviews and […]
Isabelle Seddon
Isabelle Seddon trained as a journalist and counsellor/drama therapist and is currently a blue badge tourist guide of London. She received a Doctorate of Philosophy from Southampton University, where she is a Parkes Institute Visiting Fellow.