Authors

Hugh Eakin Hugh Eakin

Hugh Eakin, a freelance journalist, was a 2001-2002 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin.

Apr 2, 2010

Peter Canby Peter Canby

Peter Canby is a senior editor at The New Yorker and the author of The Heart of the Sky: Travels Among the Maya (HarperCollins).

Apr 2, 2010

Manohla Dargis Manohla Dargis

Manohla Dargis is the film critic for Harper’s Bazaar and film editor for the LA Weekly.

Apr 2, 2010

Ella Taylor Ella Taylor

Ella Taylor is a film critic for the LA Weekly and the arts and entertainment supplement of The Atlantic Monthly.

Apr 2, 2010

Danny Hoch Danny Hoch

Danny Hoch is an actor, writer and teacher. His book Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop was released last fall by Villard/Random House.

Apr 2, 2010

Joshua Gamson Joshua Gamson

Joshua Gamson, an associate professor of sociology at Yale University, is the author of Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity (Chicago).

Apr 2, 2010

Walter Dean Burnham Walter Dean Burnham

Walter Dean Burnham, professor of government at the University of Texas, specializes in the study of American politics in general and critical realignments in particular.

Apr 2, 2010

Robert W. Edgar Robert W. Edgar

The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Edgar is general secretary of the National Council of Churches, New York. An ordained United Methodist elder, he just concluded ten years as president of the…

Apr 2, 2010

Lawrence Joseph Lawrence Joseph

Lawrence Joseph's most recent books of poems are Into It and Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His book of prose, The Game Changed, is published by the University of Michigan Press in its Poets on Poetry series. He is Tinnelly Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law in New York City.

Apr 2, 2010

Kumi Naidoo Kumi Naidoo

Kumi Naidoo is the executive director of Greenpeace.  Previously, he was secretary general and CEO of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, dedicated to strengthening citizen participation and civil society worldwide. He grew up in South Africa and was later a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, from which he holds a PhD.

Apr 2, 2010

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