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James Carroll

James Carroll is Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Suffolk University and a columnist for the Boston Globe. His most recent book is Practicing Catholic.

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Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. His works include The Crucible and Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman.

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George Packer

George Packer, staff writer for The New Yorker, is author of The Village of Waiting and The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq. His most recent book is Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade.

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Ha Jin

Ha Jin is Professor of English at Boston University and two-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. These poems appear in Between Silences, his first book of poetry. His most recent book is A Good Fall: Stories.

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Cecelia Tichi

Cecelia Tichi, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, is author of Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America and Exposés and Excess: Muckraking in America.

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Edward Wolff is Professor of Economics at New York University, a research associate at the Levy Institute of Economics at Bard College, and the author of many books and scholarly studies of wealth and wealth disparity. Formerly he served as managing editor of The Review of Income and Wealth.

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Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University. His published works include The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages and The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. He is coeditor of Romantic Poetry and Prose and Victorian Poetry and Prose.

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Ellen Spirer

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Ellen S. Miller

Ellen S. Miller is co-founder and Executive Director of the Sunlight Foundation.

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Janice Fine

Janice Fine is Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations and Director of the workplace justice lab@RU.

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Walter Kendrick

Walter Kendrick was Professor of English at Fordham University.

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Dante Alighieri

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W.S. Merwin

W.S. Merwin is the seventeenth Poet Laureate of the United States. His most recent collection of poems, The Shadow of Sirius‚ won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize.

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Tom Hart

Tom Hart edited Beyond the Sixth Game, by Peter Gammons.

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Patrick Erouart-Siad

Patrick Erouart-Siad, a French writer in New York, is author of three travel books and three novels.

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Katherine Singer Kovacs

Katherine Singer Kovacs (1946–1989) was a professor of literature and film studies and editor of The Quarterly Review of Film and Video. She published extensively on French and Spanish literature, as well as Spanish-language film. An annual prize is offered in her name for outstanding books in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures.

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Michael Coffey

Michael Coffey’s two books of poems are Elemenopy and 87 North. He is Senior Managing Editor of Publishers Weekly and Editor of The Irish in America.

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Shirley Roses

Shirley Roses is a social worker and freelance writer.

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Gail Pool

Gail Pool (1946–2022) was an American writer and editor. She joined Boston Review as an editorial assistant in 1975—the year the magazine was founded—and served as editor between 1977 and 1980. She authored three books, including Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America.

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Grace Paley

Grace Paley (1922–2007) was a writer and activist whose poetry and stories include The Little Disturbances of Man and Enormous Changes at the Last Minute.

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Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was an American writer, critic, and filmmaker. Her many books include Against Interpretation, On Photography, and Illness as Metaphor. She won the National Book Award in 2000 for In America.

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Geoffrey Movius

Geoffrey Movius is an American writer. He taught English and American literature at Tufts University.

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Jibade Khalil-Huffman

Jibade-Khalil Huffman was born in Detroit and lives in Rhode Island. He is the winner of the 2004 Grolier Poetry Prize.