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Janine di Giovanni Experienced war correspondent Janine di Giovanni began her career covering the First Palestinian Intifada, and since the Arab Spring, she has been mainly focused on the Middle East. A fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York; the Middle East editor of Newsweek and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, she is the author of nine books. Her most recent, The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria, has been translated into 18 languages.
Matthew Brookes Self-taught photographer Matthew Brookes was born in Britain and raised in South Africa. His portraits have appeared in a range of publications including Vanity Fair, Vogue and the New York Times Magazine. Inspired by the effortless simplicity of French style, Brookes’s relocation to Paris had a profound influence on his aesthetic as a photographer. Fascinated by the strength and athleticism of the male ballet dancers of the Paris Opéra, Brookes spent a year documenting their rehearsals, with the project being published as Les Danseurs, his first book, in 2015.
Hanif Kureishi Hanif Kureishi is an acclaimed novelist, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. Having begun his career writing pornography under the pseudonym Antonia French, his 1985 screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette won the New York Film Critics Circle Best Screenplay Award and an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay. His first novel The Buddha of Suburbia won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel in 1990, and was adapted into a BBC series featuring the music of David Bowie. He was awarded a CBE in 2008.
Greg Lotus Born in West Virginia, Greg Lotus has spent 20 years working as a photographer. An acclaimed portrait maker, Lotus’s compositional style draws inspiration from classical paintings. In 2011, he presented IMPRESSIONS, the first solo exhibition of his photography, which was followed in 2012 by IMAGES, shown during Art Basel in Miami, and his work has appeared in Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, L'Uomo Vogue and W magazine.
Samin Nosrat Writer, teacher and chef Samin Nosrat has been cooking professionally since 2000, when she obtained an apprenticeship with Chez Panisse while still studying for her undergraduate degree at University of California, Berkeley. She has since taught cookery classes across America, writes a column for the New York Times and is a contributor to numerous other publications including Bon Appetit and the Guardian. Nosrat lives in Berkeley, California. Her first book, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is a New York Times bestseller.
Charles Bock Charles Bock is the author of two novels. His 2008 debut, Beautiful Children, is a New York Times bestseller. His second novel, Alice & Oliver, is based on his late wife’s diagnosis of acute myeloid leukaemia six months after the birth of their daughter. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Slate, as well as in numerous anthologies. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York City.
Matthew Brookes Photo assistant Patrick Lyn Digital capture Philipp Paulus Retouching Pablo Amati
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