Ian Buruma is the author most recently of Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah.

John Banville is an Irish author and critic. His most recent book is Venetian Vespers.

Sergei Lebedev is a Russian novelist and the author most recently of The Lady in the Mine.

Christina Cacouris is an essayist based in Paris.

Arash Azizi is a writer and a lecturer at Yale University. He is the author of What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom.

Lily Lynch is a writer and editor. She lives in Istanbul.

Adam Kirsch is the author, among other books, of The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us and On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice.

Declan Ryan, a British poet, is the author of Crisis Actor and the editor, with Alan Jenkins, of Free Bloody Birds, a new journal.

Carlos Fraenkel is a professor of philosophy and religion at McGill University.

Henri Cole’s collection The Other Love: Poems will appear this summer.

Jennie Lightweis-Goff is the author most recently of Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South.

Patrick Mackie’s books include Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces.

Abhrajyoti Chakraborty is a critic who lives in New Delhi.

Paul J. Pastor’s most recent collection, The Locust Years: Poems, was released this spring.

Justin Smith-Ruiu’s book On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy and the Nature of Reality will be published in September.

Michael Kimmage is a professor of history at Catholic University.

Mischa Shuman is a writer, translator, and an applied physicist. She lives in Paris.

Greg Gerke’s book In The Suavity of the Rock was published last fall.

Morten Høi Jensen is the European liaison for Liberties. His book The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain will be published by Yale University Press this fall.

Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties. Her biography of Chaim Soutine will be published by Public Affairs in the fall.

Leon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties