Jane Smiley Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is a novelist and an essayist. Her most recent novel is Golden Age, published by Knopf. Her most recent collection of essays, The Questions That Matter Most (Heyday Boo…
Apr 2, 2010
U Thangara Linkhara U Thangara Linkhara
U Thangara Linkhara is abbot of the Dhamma Yeiktha Monastery in Myanmar’s main city of Yangon.
Apr 2, 2010
Akbar Ganji Akbar Ganji
Akbar Ganji is an Iranian journalist and dissident who spent six years in prison for exposing rights abuses committed by Iran’s fundamentalist regime. His work has appeared i…
Apr 2, 2010
Jennifer Moxley Jennifer Moxley
Jennifer Moxley teaches at the University of Maine and is the poetry editor of The Baffler. Her most recent book of poems is Clampdown (Flood). Author photograph courtesy of John Sarsgard
Apr 2, 2010
Jeffrey Yang Jeffrey Yang
Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry books An Aquarium and the forthcoming Vanishing-Line. He is the translator of Su Shi's East Slope and a collection of classical Chinese poems called Rhythm 226. Yang is also the co-editor (with Natasha Wimmer) of Two Lines: Some Kind of Beautiful Signal, and the editor of Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions. He is currently working on a translation of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's June Fourth Elegies. Photograph by Nina Subin.
Apr 2, 2010
Ian Hacking Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking, the author of The Taming of Chance and other books, is an honorary professor at the Collège de France.
Apr 2, 2010
Virginia Sole-Smith Virginia Sole-Smith
Virginia Sole-Smith is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Good Housekeeping, More and other publications.
Apr 2, 2010
Byron Dobell Byron Dobell
Byron Dobell, a painter of portraits and landscapes, is the former chief editor of Book World, Esquire and American Heritage. His seventh one-man show will open in December at the…
Apr 2, 2010
Marvin Kitman Marvin Kitman
Marvin Kitman is the author of The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill O'Reilly. He is currently the media critic of the Huffington Post, and was media critic at Newsday for thirty-five years.
Apr 2, 2010