Contributors

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and In the Dream House, which was the winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife.

Steven Lukes is a professor of sociology at New York University. He has written many books about political and social theory, including Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work and the seminal Power: A Radical View, recently released in a new edition 30 years after it was first published.

Christina Lupton grew up in communes in London and Australia, dropped out of school at 15 and recovered her taste in study to take a degree in critical and cultural theory at the University of Sussex and then to do a PhD at Rutgers in New Jersey. She has taught English Literature at universities around the world and written on novels and the history of reading, including in her book, Reading and the Making of Time (2018). She is currently a Professor at the University of Warwick, but is on leave while serving as the Dean of Modern Languages at KU in Copenhagen. She lives in that city with her partner and children.

Joris Luyendijk was born December 30th 1971 in the Netherlands. His first three books are about the Middle East, the most successful of which appeared in English as Hello Everybody. Joris Luyendijk is currently living in London, having completed an anthropological investigation into how bankers in the City can live with themselves for the Guardian, now a book, Swimming with Sharks, My Journey into the World of the Bankers. (Faber)

Thomas Lys is Eric L. Kohler Chair in Accounting at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is an editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics and has served as a consultant for General Electric and IBM, among other companies. Lys lives in Mettawa, Illinois.

Richard Mabey is one of our greatest nature writers. He is the author of some thirty books including the bestselling plant bible Flora Britannica, Food for Free, Turned Out Nice Again, Weeds: the Story of Outlaw Plants and Nature Cure which was shortlisted for the Whitbread, Ondaatje and Ackerley Awards. His biography, Gilbert White won the Whitbread Biography Award. A regular commentator on radio and in the national press, he was elected a Fellow in the Royal Society of Literature in 2012. He lives in Norfolk.

Fraser MacDonald is a lecturer in Human Geography at Edinburgh University where he teaches historical geography and the history of science. He has a regular byline at The Guardian and has also written for Aeon Magazine, The Herald, The Age, The Australian, the LRB Books blog, amongst others publications.

Alan Macfarlane is Professor of Anthropology at Cambridge. He has often visited and taught in Japan.

Dinah Mack, a writer, earned her bachelor's degree in religious studies, and her master's in cultural anthropology.

Carol K. Mack is a playwright whose plays have been produced off-Broadway and in regional theatres across the United States. A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels & Other Subversive Spirits, written with her daughter Dinah Mack, was published by Profile Books in 2008 and in paperback as A Field Guide to Demons, Vampires, Fallen Angels & Other Subversive Spirits in 2010. Carol K. Mack has been Assistant Professor of Creative writing at New York University where she received an MA in Comparative Religious Studies in 1992.www.carolkmack.com

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde (husband and wife) are laboratory directors at the Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI) in Phoenix, Arizona, where they study various aspects of visual, sensory and cognitive neuroscience. They have collaborated with Teller (of Penn & Teller) in their academic work, and their research has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, New Scientist and Wired magazine.

Margaret MacMillan is the author of Women of the Raj and international bestsellers Nixon in China and Peacemakers, which won the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent book, The War that Ended Peace, was published by Profile. She is now the Warden of St. Antony's College at Oxford University.

Andri Snær Magnason, master storyteller and environmental activist, is one of Iceland's most celebrated writers. He has won the Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction, children's fiction and non-fiction and his books have been translated into more than thirty languages. @AndriMagnason

Chantal Lyons is a naturalist and science communicator who works with fishers in the UK and beyond to protect marine megafauna from bycatch. Her first book, Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain's Wild Boar, won the BES Marsh Ecology Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize.