Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics: Spring 2026 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798992201024)

MICHAEL GRUNWALD is a journalist and the author most recently of We Are Eating The Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate.

ASSAF SHARON is a professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University and a Senior Fellow at Molad: The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy.

OKSANA FOROSTYNA is a Ukrainian editor, author, and translator.

A. E. STALLINGS is an American poet, translator, and essayist. Her most recent book is Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and Their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Pantheon.

RAHA SHAMS is a pseudonym. This essay was translated by FATEMEH JAMALPOUR, a journalist, translator, and poet who has been living in exile from Iran for two years.

ROBERT RUBSAM is a writer, editor, and photographer. He is the co-founder and co-host of the Interval Reading Series.

SERGEI LEBEDEV is a Russian novelist and the author most recently of The Lady of the Mine. This essay was translated by ANTONINA BOUIS.

IAN BURUMA's new book Stay Alive: Berlin 1939-1945 has just been published.

MARY JO SALTER is an American poet, a co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Poetry and a Professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.

DAVID A. BELL is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University.

ADAM PLUNKETT is the author of Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry.

JOHN SUMMERS is a writer, historian, and the editor of Lingua Franca magazine.

PEG BOYERS is a poet and the executive editor of Salmagundi.

GERALD HOWARD was for many years the executive editor and vice president of Doubleday Books and is the author of The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and The Triumph of American Literature.

MITCHELL ABIDOR is a translator and the author most recently of Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary.

MARGO GONTAR is a writer and activist in Kyiv.

ROBERT STEWART's book of essays, A Way of Happening, will appear later this year.

SARAH RODRIGUEZ is a fiction writer and essayist based in New York City.

CELESTE MARCUS is the executive editor of Liberties.

LEON WIESELTIER is the editor of Liberties.