Authors

Benjamin Fondane

Benjamin Fondane (1893–1944) was a Romanian poet and critic who wrote in both Romanian and French.

Sarah Jaffe

Sarah Jaffe is a writer and reporter living in New Orleans and on the road. Her most recent book is From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire.

Georg Simmel

Georg Simmel (1858–1918) was a German sociologist and philosopher.

Cosmo Garvin

Cosmo Garvin writes about local politics and public policy for the Sacramento News and Review.

Christos Ikonomou

Christos Ikonomou has published three collections of short stories, The Woman on the Rails (2003), Something Will Happen, You’ll See (2010), and All Good Things Will Come from the Sea (2014).

Edwin Muir

Edwin Muir (1887–1959) was a Scottish poet and translator.

Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh is the author of two novels, McGlue and Eileen, and the collection of short stories, Homesick for Another World.

Abi Wilkinson

Abi Wilkinson is a freelance journalist based in London writing about politics, inequality, gender, Internet culture, and anything else that takes her fancy. She tweets at @AbiWilks.

David Rees

David Rees is the author of Get Your War On and How to Sharpen Pencils. He co-hosts the Election Profit Makers podcast.

Ji Xianlin (1911–2009) was born in the impoverished flatlands of Shandong Province, only weeks before the Qing government was overthrown, and educated in Germany in the 1930s. After the Second World War, he returned to China to co-chair the Eastern Languages Department at ...

Daniel Moattar

Daniel Moattar (@danielmoattar) is a journalist based in New York. He has written and reported for The Nation.

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