Rebecca Simon is Professor of History at Santa Monica College. Her books include Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever (2020) and Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read (2022).
Seán Sheehan is a freelance writer who lives in Ireland.
María José Sevilla’s previous books include Life and Food in the Basque Country (1989), Spain on a Plate (1992) and Mediterranean Flavours (1995). She lives in London, UK, and the Sierra de Aracena in Andalusia, Spain.
Karl Schlögel is a historian and essayist and Professor Emeritus of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. His many books include histories of Moscow, Berlin and St Petersburg, and he won the European Charles Veillon essay prize in 1990 and the prize of the Historisches Kolleg Munich in 2016. in 2025 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
Joachim Schlör is a cultural historian based at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Nights in the Big City (Reaktion, 1998, New Edition 2016) and Tel Aviv: From Dream to City (Reaktion, 1999).
Max Saunders is Interdisciplinary Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham, and his books include Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life (1996), Self Impression (2010) and Imagined Futures (2019).
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Tobias Rüther is editor of the culture section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in Berlin.
Christian Raffensperger is the Kenneth E. Wray Chair in the Humanities at Wittenberg University, Ohio. His many books include Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe (2018).
Juan Antonio Ramírez is Professor of History of Art at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and the author of several books on art, architecture and film, including Duchamp: Love and Death, even (Reaktion, 1998).
François Quiviger is a fellow of the Warburg Institute, University of London. His books include The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art (2010) and Leonardo da Vinci: Self, Art and Nature (2019), both published by Reaktion Books.