Ada Calhoun is the author of Also a Poet, named one of the best books of 2022 by the New York Times, NPR, and the Washington Post; longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction; and featured on the TODAY Show and PBS News Hour. Her other books include New York Times best seller Why We Can’t Sleep and St. Marks Is Dead.

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“A grand slam of a memoir . . . Also a Poet is packaged as a love triangle: father, daughter and O’Hara. It’s actually a tetrahedron from which all kinds of creative characters pop forth. It’s a big valentine to New York City past and present, and a contribution to literary scholarship, molten with soul.” 
— New York Times Book Review

Priscilla Gilman is the author of the memoirs The Critic’s Daughter and The Anti-Romantic Child and a former professor of English literature at Yale University and Vassar College. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, O, the Oprah Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.

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“This revealing and clearly heartfelt memoir—a love letter to her father that doesn’t obscure the difficult and frustrating aspects of their relationship—works precisely because Gilman delivers a detailed portrait of her father, proverbial warts and all . . . She certainly provides the rest of us with a daughter’s thoughtful and empathetic profile of her dad.”
— Daneet Steffens, Boston Globe

Courtney Maum is the author of five books, including the groundbreaking publishing guide that Vanity Fair recently named one of the ten best books for writers, Before and After the Book Deal, and the memoir The Year of the Horses, chosen by the TODAY Show as the best read for mental health awareness. 

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“Gorgeously written, wry but loving, heartbreaking and, most of all, roving . . . The Year of the Horses is a memoir of power and beauty.”
—Lisa Taddeo, author of Animal

With a dozen books to her credit, Susanna Moore is widely considered one of America’s most important and distinctive writers, noted both for her stunning prose and for her unflinching gaze. Her first novel, My Old Sweetheart (1982), was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award and won the Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  Her controversial 1995 novel In the Cut was made into an equally controversial film, now widely recognized as a masterpiece, by the director Jane Campion.

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“In her searing new novel, The Lost Wife . . . [Susanna Moore] writes of the past with quiet insight through the eyes of women who . . . frequently move from a form of innocence to some collision with history . . . As in all Moore’s writing, the details are tartly precise. So are her striking observations, offered without sentimentality or fanfare . . . [a] beautifully crafted novel . . . Moore is a strong and inventive writer.”
— The New York Review of Books

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Liz Bucar is a leading expert in religious ethics. She is the author of four books, including her most recent, Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation, and the award-winning Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress. At Northeastern University, Bucar teaches courses on sexual ethics, Islam, and cultural appropriation and directs the popular comparative religion program in Spain that includes a 150-mile hike on the Camino. Her public scholarship has appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and Teen Vogue. 

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“Stealing My Religion not only deftly grapples with fascinating case studies to name and center the ethical challenges of religious appropriation, but also models how to use this knowledge to reassess our relationship to practices of religious appropriation that we all collude with in various ways. The book also invites us to pause to (re)assess our participation in these complicated spheres of praxis—as educators and scholars, or just everyday folks—and ultimately our responsibilities to the communities we have harmed along the way.”
— Shobhana Xavier, Reading Religion

Bob Smietana is an award-winning religion reporter and editor who has spent two decades producing breaking news, data journalism, investigative reporting, profiles, and features for magazines, newspapers, trade publications, and websites.  Most notably, he has served as a senior writer for Facts & Trends, senior editor of Christianity Today, religion writer at The Tennessean, correspondent for Religion News Service, and contributor to OnFaith, USA TODAY, and the Washington Post.

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“Telling rich stories about people and communities across a vast religious spectrum, Smietana delivers his insights on reimagining American Christianity and organized religion more broadly.”
— Library Journal

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George Packer is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of 10 books, including The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (a winner of the 2013 National Book Award); Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (the winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize); and, most recently, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal. Before joining The Atlantic in 2018, he was a staff writer at The New Yorker for 15 years. He writes about American politics and culture and U.S. foreign policy.

Elizabeth Becker is an award-winning journalist and author, most recently of You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War, which won the 2022 Sperber Book Prize and Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize. Her history When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge has been in print since 1986 and is now a classic. Becker covered international affairs for over four decades, as a war correspondent in Cambodia for the Washington Post, as Senior Foreign Editor at National Public Radio, and as a New York Times correspondent. 

Samuel Moyn is Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University.  Among his books are Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics, A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World, and Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War.  

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“Skeptical of received wisdom and over-burnished reputations, Liberalism Against Itself is a continuously bracing and necessary exercise in intellectual iconoclasm. It not only rescues a distinguished Western tradition from its skittish cold-war exponents and bellicose neo-conservative exegetes; it also alerts us to the many political and intellectual possibilities still open to us.”
— Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Simon Winchester studied geology at Oxford and has written for Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian, and National Geographic. His many books include The Professor and the Madman; The Map that Changed the World; Krakatoa; and A Crack in the Edge of the World. Each of these has been a New York Times bestseller and appeared on numerous best and notable lists. Winchester was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth in 2006.

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“A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledge of every variety, perhaps the last of the famous explorers who crisscrossed the now-vanished British Empire and reported what they found to an astonished world.”

—New York Times

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Neil King Jr. is a former national political reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal. He was deeply involved in the 9/11 coverage that won the Journal the Pulitzer Prize. He has also written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications. American Ramble is his first book.

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“This is a near perfect book, an exquisitely seen and felt memoir of an American journey; it’s not just a geographic journey, full of keen observations and thoughtful insights, but a spiritual one, finding in our complex and sometimes contradictory landscape a mirror in which King’s own inner life awakens as he wanders. Amazing.”
— Ken Burns

Rinker Buck began his career in journalism at the Berkshire Eagle and was a longtime staff writer for the Hartford Courant. He has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Life, and many other publications, and his work has won the PEN New England Award, the Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award, and the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award. He is the New York Times best-selling author of The Oregon Trail, Flight of Passage, and First Job. 

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“Audacious . . . Compelling . . . An antidote to the cynicism of the times . . . Life on the Mississippi sparkles. . . . His prose, like the river itself, has turns that quicken the pulse.”
— Wall Street Journal

Carl Safina grew up raising pigeons, training hawks and owls, and spending as many days and nights in the woods and on the water as he could. He is now the first Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and is founding president of the Safina Center. He hosted the PBS series Saving the Ocean, and his writing appears in the New York Times, TIME, the Guardian, Audubon, Yale e360, and National Geographic, and on the Web at Huffington Post, CNN.com, Medium, and elsewhere. Safina is the author of ten books, including the classic Song for the Blue Ocean, as well as New York Times best seller Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel and Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace

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“Carl Safina has written a book of great wisdom and beauty, full of drama and insight. How right to choose an owl, symbol of learning, to help us see anew the twinned truths of compassion and connection—gifts our kind desperately needs to keep our world alive.”
—Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

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