contributors
Mark Almond is director of the Crisis Research Institute, Oxford, and a frequent contributor to the British press. David Anderson is a QC and a Crossbench peer. He was formerly the UK’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. Nigel Andrew is author of The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death. Shahidha Bari is Professor of Fashion Cultures and Histories at London College of Fashion. J S Barnes is the author of five novels, most recently Dracula’s Child and The City of Dr Moreau. Edward Behrens is editor of Apollo magazine. Laurel Berger is a writer and translator based in Washington, DC. Thomas Blaikie is royal, manners and etiquette correspondent at The Lady. Costica Bradatan’s new book, In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility, will be published by Harvard University Press in early 2023. Simon Briscoe is director of a data science company. James Campbell’s most recent book is Just Go Down to the Road: A Memoir of Trouble and Travel, published in May. NB by JC: A walk through the Times Literary Supplement will appear next year. George Cochrane is a writer and editor based in London. Robert Colls is writing a Very Short Introduction to George Orwell for Oxford University Press. Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. David Crane’s books inc lude Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves (William Collins). Ian Critchley is a freelance writer and editor.
Anthony Cummins is a freelance writer. Peter Davidson is a senior research fellow at Campion Hall in Oxford. His verse collection Arctic Elegies will be published by Carcanet in November. Michael Delgado works at Literary Review. Paul Driver has published much music criticism, as well as verse pamphlets and books of essays and fiction. Nora Duckett teaches at the University of Suffolk and is the author, with Liz Davies, of Proactive Child Protection and Social Work. Patricia Fara is Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and was the winner of the 2022 Abraham Pais Prize for the History of Physics. Catherine Fletcher is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University and is writing a book about travel to Rome. Emma Garman is a writer and critic living in Brighton. Jay Gilbert teaches medieval English at the University of Oxford and is a freelance writer and journalist. Florence Hazrat’s life of the exclamation mark in literature, social media and pop culture, An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!, is published by Profile this month. David Jays writes for The Guardian and the Sunday Times and is editor of Dance Gazette. Dorian Lynskey is a journalist, author and podcaster. He is currently working on the second season of his podcast Origin Story and a book about the end of the world. Allan Massie is the author of The Bordeaux Quartet.
Carl Miller is research director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos and author of The Death of the Gods. Jane O’Grady co-founded the London School of Philosophy, writes philosophers’ obituaries for The Guardian and co-edited A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations with A J Ayer. Bijan Omrani is the author of Caesar’s Footprints and co-director of the Shute Literary Festival. Kathy O’Shaughnessy is the author of the novel In Love with George Eliot. Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call Home. Daniel Rey is a writer and critic living in New York. Stephen Romer was made Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres last year. Alan Ryan was formerly Warden of New College. Victor Sebestyen is the author of Lenin the Dictator. His Budapest Between East and West was published in June. Miranda Seymour’s most recent book, I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys, was published by William Collins in May. Peyton Skipwith is a former director of the Fine Art Society and an authority on late 19th- and early 20th-century fine and decorative arts. Tim Smith-Laing is a writer and art critic based in London. Antony Spawforth is still writing What the Greeks Did for Us for Yale University Press. Gillian Tindall’s latest book, The Pulse Glass, about time and chance survival, is available now in paperback (Virago). Adrian Tinniswood’s most recent book is Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House ( Jonathan Cape). Jerry White’s Battle of London 1939–45: Endurance, Heroism and Frailty under Fire was published by Bodley Head last year.
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