Contributors

YAROSLAV HRYTSAK is a professor of history at Ukrainian Catholic University and the author of Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation.

DAVID A. BELL is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University.

DURS GRÜNBEIN is a German poet and essayist. His most recent collection of poems in English is Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City. His work here was translated by KAREN LEEDER.

CLIFFORD THOMPSON’s memoir Twin of Blackness appeared in 2015.

DAVID GROSSMAN is the author, among many books, of To the End of the Land.

ALFRED BRENDEL, the pianist, is the author most recently of The Lady from Arezzo: My Musical Life and Other Matters.

AGNES CALLARD is a professor of philosophy at the University
of Chicago. Her book Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life was recently published.

PAULA BOHINCE’s most recent poetry collection, Swallows and Waves, appeared in 2016.

ENRIQUE KRAUZE is a Mexican essayist, producer, and publisher. He is the author of many books and the founder of the magazine Letras Libres.

JAMES TRAUB’s book on civic education, Teaching America, will be published next year.

JAROSLAW ANDERS is the author of Between Fire and Sleep: Essays on Modern Polish Poetry and Prose.

GARY SAUL MORSON is Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University and the author most recently of Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.

KENDA MUTONGI is the Ford International Professor of History
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

PASCAL BRUCKNER is a French writer and the author, among other books, of A Brief Eternity: The Philosophy of Longevity. This essay was translated by JENNIFER GORE.

KARL KIRCHWEY is a professor of English and Creative Writing
at Boston University.

CELESTE MARCUS is the managing editor of Liberties.

LEON WIESELTIER is the editor of Liberties.