Charles Lane is a longtime writer for the Washington Post and a well-known commentator on the Washington political scene, with particular focus on the Supreme Court. After serving as a foreign correspondent and Berlin bureau chief for Newsweek and as…
Jeffrey Herf is professor of modern European and German history at the University of Maryland in College Park. Widely published, Herf has most recently received the National Jewish Book Award for his work The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War…
Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad, Russia, in 1972, and immigrated to the United States seven years later. He is the author of the novels Absurdistan (Random House, 2006) and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (Riverhead Books, 2002). Absurdistan was named…
Sidra Stich is a San Francisco-based art historian and museum curator specializing in modern and contemporary art, architecture, and design. She is also a travel writer and the director of art-SITES, a publishing venture that offers guides to the arts…
Best known for her portraits of adolescent men and women, Collier Schorr’s images often blend photographic realism with elements of fiction and youthful fantasy. However, her project There I Was (SteidlMack, 2007), represented a shift in both medium and concept for…
Mitch Epstein's photographs are in numerous major museum collections, including New York's Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Tate Modern in London, the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco…
Law and economics expert Jason Scott Johnston joined the Virginia Law faculty in 2010 and serves as the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law and the Nicholas E. Chimicles Research Professor in Business Law and Regulation.…
Anne Carson is a classicist, author, and poet. She holds appointments in the departments of classics, comparative literature, and English at the University of Michigan. Carson’s writings frequently conflate the borders of publishing categories, as references to such genres…
After a 17-year career as a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, Gregg Horowitz moved to New York City in 2010 to become Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New…
Sylvester Ogbechie has an extensive scholarly background in classical, modern, and contemporary African and African Diaspora arts. His research evaluates “alternative modernities”, and the colonial and postcolonial conventions of representation in the arts and visual cultures of African and African…