Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Motherhood, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and How Should a Person Be?, which New York magazine deemed one of the “New Classics” of the twenty-first century. Image © Steph Martyniuk
Shaul Adar

Shaul Adar is an acclaimed Israeli journalist and an expert on Israeli football. He writes for The Blizzard, When Saturday Comes and 11 Freunde among other football publications. On the Border is his third book.
Shashank Joshi

Shashank Joshi is The Economist‘s defence editor. Prior to joining The Economist in 2018, he served as Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Research Associate at Oxford University’s Changing Character of War Programme. He has published books on Iran’s nuclear programme and India’s armed forces, written for a wide range of newspapers and […]
Sharan Tabari

Sharan Tabari was born in Iran and completed her education in the UK. Between 1979 and 1986, she lectured in political science at various Iranian universities. She left Iran in 1986, and became a lecturer at Birkbeck College and a radio journalist and chief correspondent at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Persian Service
Sarah Brown

Sarah Brown is a Professor of English Literature whose research interests range from Ovid and Shakespeare to the Victorian novel and modern science fiction.
Sarah Bernstein

Sarah Bernstein is from Montreal, Quebec and lives in the Northwest Highlands, Scotland. Her fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in Granta and other publications in Canada and the UK. She teaches modern and contemporary literature at Strathclyde University. Her first novel The Coming Bad Days was published in 2021, and her poetry collection Now Comes the Lightening was published in 2015. Study […]
Sara Gibbs

Sara Gibbs is a comedy writer, graduate of the National Film and Television School’s Writing & Producing Comedy course. Her credits include Dead Ringers, The News Quiz, The Now Show, and Have I Got News for You. She is co-founder of satirical online women’s magazine, Succubus, and founded The First Laugh Comedy Writing Competition for new writers.
Samuel Graydon

Samuel Graydon is the science editor at the Times Literary Supplement. He has published short fiction and poetry and won an Alpine fellowship. He lives in Bath with his wife and son. Einstein in Time and Space is his first book. Image © Mika Lungulov-Klotz
Samantha Ellis

The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish refugees, Samantha Ellis is the author of the books Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture, How to be a Heroine and Take Courage and her plays include How to Date a Feminist, Cling to me Like Ivy and Operation Magic Carpet. Her journalism has appeared in the […]
Sally Berkovic

Sally Berkovic is the author of Under My Hat, examining the challenges to Orthodoxy by the increased engagement of women in Talmud study, ritual life and religious leadership, and Death Duties, an account of her involvement on the Chevra Kadisha, the Jewish burial society. She is the CEO of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe.
Ryan MacKenzie

Ryan MacKenzie’s prodigious versatility makes him one of the UK’s most sought after composer-arrangers. He has written for such celebrated ensembles as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and for a diverse range of artists, including Pixie Lott, Alan Cumming, Gabrielle Aplin […]
Ruth Wisse

Ruth R. Wisse was Professor of Yiddish literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard University 1993-2014, and before that at McGill University in Montreal. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Tikvah Center in New York. She has published several books on literature, culture, and politics. Image © Joyce Ravid