Sep 12, 2022
Michael Žantovský is a
Czech diplomat, author and translator. He is a former Czech
Ambassador to the United Kingdom, as well as to Israel and the
United States. He has translated more than fifty works of fiction,
drama and poetry, mostly by contemporary American and British
writers including James Baldwin, Norman...
Apr 14, 2022
Kathryn Schulz joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2015. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and a National Magazine Award for “The Really Big One,” her story on seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Previously, she was the book critic for New York, the editor of the environmental...
Jan 17, 2022
Hermione Lee was
President of Wolfson College from 2008 to 2017 and is Emeritus
Professor of English Literature in the English Faculty at Oxford
University. She is a biographer and critic whose work includes
biographies of Virginia Woolf (1996), Edith Wharton (2006) and
Penelope Fitzgerald (2013, winner of the 2014...
Jul 13, 2020
Mark Bourrie is a
Canadian lawyer, blogger, journalist, author, historian, and
lecturer. His work has appeared in many Canadian magazines and
newspapers. In 2020, his book
Bushrunner: The Adventures of Pierre Radisson, won the
final RBC Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction.
Known widely as the namesake of...
May 6, 2020
Don Gillmor is an award-winning Canadian novelist, journalist and children's book author. His new book To the River (2018) explores his brother’s suicide. It won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction and was a CBC Best Books of 2019.
His novel Long Change (2015) examines the world of oil through...