Rachel Long
Rachel Long’s debut collection, My Darling from the Lions (Picador 2020 / Tin House 2021) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, The Costa Book Award, The Rathbones Folio Prize, and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
Oakley Flanagan
Oakley Flanagan is a writer and poet from the West Midlands, by way of Ireland.
Sarah Blake
Sarah Blake is the author of Clean Air, a cli-fi domestic thriller, Naamah, a novel reimagining the story of Noah’s ark, and poetry collections Mr. West, Let’s Not Live on Earth, and In Springtime. She received the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction and a Literature Fellowship from the NEA.
Linda Kinstler
Linda Kinstler is a contributing writer for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine and a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric Department at UC Berkeley. Her writing appears in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Wired, and elsewhere. Image © Pete Kiehart
Julia Hollander
Julia Hollander is a singing therapist, teacher and performer. She lives and works in Oxford.
Stephen Bush
Stephen Bush is associate editor at the FT, where he writes their Inside Politics newsletter and a wide-ranging weekly column. Prior to that, he worked at the New Statesman, the i and Telegraph, and has written for the Times, the Mirror, the Nation, the New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent.
David Dein
David Dein MBE is the Ambassador for the Premier League and International Ambassador for the Football Association. He is the former co-owner and vice-chairman of Arsenal Football Club and former vice-chairman of the Football Association. Image © Stuart MacFarlane
Michael Frank
Michael Frank is the author of the memoir The Mighty Franks and the novel What is Missing. His essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The TLS, among other publications.
Kei Hiruta
Kei Hiruta is Assistant Professor and AIAS-COFUND Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark.
Barbara E. Mann
Barbara Mann is the Stephen J. Hoffman Professor in Modern Hebrew Language and Literature at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of A Place in History: Modernism, Tel Aviv and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space (Stanford, 2006) and Space and Place in Jewish Studies
John A Davis
John A Davis is professor of modern Italian history emeritus at the University of Connecticut, a research associate in the History Department at the University of Warwick and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. He has published widely on many aspects of Italian history from the 18th century to the present.
David I. Kertzer
David I. Kertzer is Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Pope and Mussolini, and winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for biography; The Pope Who Would Be King, and The Popes Against the Jews, a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize. Image © Kindra Clineff