Authors

Jay Parini Jay Parini

Jay Parini, a poet and novelist, teaches at Middlebury College. His most recent novel is The Apprentice Lover (HarperCollins).

Apr 2, 2010

Rabbi Michael Lerner Rabbi Michael Lerner

Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun, a magazine of progressive Jews, author of Healing Israel/Palestine (North Atlantic) and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco (w…

Apr 2, 2010

Ian Williams Ian Williams

Ian Williams, formerly UN correspondent for The Nation, is the author of Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776; The Deserter: Bush’s War on Military F…

Apr 2, 2010

Studs Terkel Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel’s most recent book is Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (New Press).

Apr 2, 2010

Tim Frasca Tim Frasca

Tim Frasca is a US journalist based in Santiago, Chile. He has lived and worked in South America for twenty years.

Apr 2, 2010

Jan Goodwin Jan Goodwin

Jan Goodwin is an award-winning journalist and the author of Price of Honor (Plume-Penguin), which examines how Islamic extremism is affecting the lives of Muslim women.

Apr 2, 2010

Breyten Breytenbach Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach is a renowned South African writer whose opposition to apartheid resulted in his being convicted of terrorism and spending seven years in prison.

Apr 2, 2010

Charmaine Seitz Charmaine Seitz

Charmaine Seitz is a journalist based in Jerusalem. She writes regularly for In These Times and Janes’s Intelligence Digest and helps to edit the Palestine Report.

Apr 2, 2010

George McGovern George McGovern

George McGovern, senator from South Dakota from 1962 to 1980 and Democratic candidate for President in 1972, is the author of The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time (Simon &a…

Apr 2, 2010

George Packer George Packer

George Packer is the author of two novels and two works of nonfiction, most recently Blood of the Liberals, which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He is editing an anthol…

Apr 2, 2010

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