Alex Clark
Alex Clark is a journalist and editor who has written for The Guardian, The Observer and The Times Literary Supplement. She also presents the programme Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and hosts the Vintage Podcast about books
Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Churchwell is Professorial Fellow in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of London and a regular commentator on arts, culture, and politics for TV, radio and press.
Carrie Plitt
Carrie Plitt is a literary agent at Felicity Bryan Associates. With Octavia Bright, she co-hosts Literary Friction, a monthly literary talk show and podcast about books and ideas.
Octavia Bright
Dr Octavia Bright is a writer and academic. She has written criticism, fiction and poetry for a variety of publications. She co-hosts Literary Friction, a monthly literary talk show and podcast about books and ideas, with Carrie Plitt.
Louis Berk
Louis Berk is an award winning photographer who has spent the last decade documenting the changing faces of Whitechapel and London.
Nick Barratt
Professor Nick Barratt is an author, broadcaster and historian best known for his work on BBC TV’s Who Do You Think You Are.
Merle Bachman
Merle L. Bachman is an American Jewish poet, scholar, and Professor of English at Spalding University, Louisville, Kentucky.
Joseph Atkins
Joseph Atkins is a musical director, composer and arranger.
Alba Arikha
Alba Arikha is an author of fiction and non-fiction and has published five books.
Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian . She is a columnist for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University. She divides her time between Britain, Poland and the USA. Image © Rahil Ahmad
Dov Alfon
Brought up in Paris, Dov Alfon is a former intelligence officer of Unit 8200. He was editor in chief of Ha’aretz, and chief editor of Kinneret-Zmora. Image © Lital Levin
Jeremy Adler
Jeremy Adler is a Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London. He has published widely on German literature, writes for the TLS and the LRB, is a member of the German Academy and has also written three novels.