Jacques Réda is the author of several collections of poetry including Récitatif (1970) and La Tourne (1975). Les Ruines de Paris was his first book of prose and is published here in English for the first time.
Marianne Thesander is an ethnologist and lives in Copenhagen.
Patrick Keiller is a film-maker who was previously an architect. Robinson in Space was the winner of one of three Tiger awards at the 26th International Film Festival in Rotterdam in 1997. Robinson in Space was co-winner of the Grand Award film arc.graz at the Third Internationale Biennale Film and Architecture, Graz.
Harald Kleinschmidt teaches the history of international relations at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is the author of Europe and Japan (1997).
Jane Caplan is Marjorie Walter Goodhart Professor of European History at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.
Timothy Mowl is Emeritus Professor of History of Architecture and Designed Landscapes at the University of Bristol. He is the author of more than thirty books on architectural and garden history.
Jean Mohr co-authored A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (1967) and A Seventh Man (1975). Berger’s most recent novel is King: A Street Story (1999).
Jean-Claude Lebensztejn is Professor of Art History at the University of Paris and has written essays, articles and books on art, poetry, linguistics and cinema.
Richard Wall is a writer, painter, designer and photographer based in Austria. His most recent publication is HerzAsphaltörderGrubenRhapsodie (1997).
Tim Cresswell is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology and Transgression (1996)