Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. His books have been translated into thirteen languages and won three international prizes. He is a regular broadcaster on television and radio across the world. His latest book Queer Cambridge was a TLS book of the year for 2025.

Ramie Targoff is the Jehuda Reinharz Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, and Co-Chair of Italian Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of five books on Renaissance English and Italian literature: Common Prayer (2001); John Donne, Body and Soul (2008); Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England (2014); Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna … Read More

Pankaj Mishra is an essayist and novelist, a longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books and the New Yorker, and the author of several books, including From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia and Age of Anger: A History of the Present. His most recent books are Run and Hide: A … Read More

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer is Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin. She was a driving force behind the 1641 Depositions Project and chaired the Irish Research Council (2015-21). She has numerous publications.  Her latest Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World (Oxford, 2023) is based on the 2021 Ford Lectures in Oxford.  In 2023 she … Read More

Dylan Moran is a comedian, actor and writer who in 1996 won the Perrier Award, at the Edinburgh Fringe. Black Books, the Channel 4 hit sitcom that he co-wrote and starred-in, won him two BAFTAs, and he has since won numerous prizes and accolades for his television work and live-shows. Moran merges two strands of stand-up: sharp observational humor, and … Read More

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the New York Times bestsellers Rogues, Empire of Pain and Say Nothing, as well as two earlier nonfiction books: The Snakehead and Chatter. Patrick started contributing to The New Yorker in 2006. He received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014. Say Nothing … Read More

Margaret MacMillan is emeritus Professor of History at the University of Toronto and emeritus Professor of International History and the former Warden of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. Her books include Women of the Raj (1988, 2007); Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (2001, 2002); Nixon in China: Six Days that Changed the World (2006, … Read More

Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. Between 1989 and 1993, Sheridan directed two critically acclaimed films set in Ireland, My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, and later directed the films The Boxer and In America. Sheridan has received six Academy Award nominations. Over a career that … Read More

Mary Robinson was the first woman President of Ireland; a pioneering former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; former Chair of The Elders; a passionate advocate for gender equality, women’s participation in peace-building, human dignity and climate justice. Mary’s current work includes her role as Guardian of the Planetary Boundaries, elevating the science of the nine planetary boundaries to call … Read More

Max Porter is the author of four novels, including the Sunday Times #1 bestseller Shy, the Booker Prize longlisted Lanny, and the multi-award winning Grief is the Thing with Feathers. His work has been translated into 36 languages. Porter’s screen adaptation of Shy, starring Cillian Murphy, was released by Netflix in October 2025, and the screen adaptation of Grief is … Read More