Authors

Stephen Schlesinger Stephen Schlesinger

Stephen Schlesinger, author of Act of Creation (Westview), on the founding of the United Nations, is the director of the World Policy Institute at the New School.

Apr 2, 2010

Linda Heller Linda Heller

Linda Heller’s writing on medicine and health has appeared in many national magazines.

Apr 2, 2010

Chip Ward Chip Ward

Chip Ward is a former grassroots organizer/activist who has led several successful campaigns to hold polluters accountable. He described his political adventures in Canaries on the…

Apr 2, 2010

Andrew Ross Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, and author of many books, including Bird On Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City  and Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times.

Apr 2, 2010

Curtis Wilkie Curtis Wilkie

Curtis Wilkie, author of Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South, lives in New Orleans and Oxford, Mississippi, where he holds the Cook Chair in Journ…

Apr 2, 2010

Christine Smallwood Christine Smallwood

Christine Smallwood, a writer in New York, is former associate literary editor of The Nation.

Apr 2, 2010

Earl Ofari Hutchinson Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political analyst and social issues commentator, is the author of The Crisis in Black and Black (Middle Passage).

Apr 2, 2010

Corey Robin Corey Robin

Corey Robin, who teaches at Brooklyn College, is the author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea, and The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, which has just come out in paperback.

Apr 2, 2010

Laila Lalami Laila Lalami

Laila Lalami, the author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, is an associate professor of creative writing at the university of California, Riverside. Her new novel, The Moor’s Account, will be published next year.

Apr 2, 2010

Milton Viorst Milton Viorst

Milton Viorst, who has covered the Middle East as a journalist for more than three decades, is the author of six books on the subject. His latest, to be published by Random House n…

Apr 2, 2010

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