Contributors
Matthew Aucoin is a composer and conductor, and a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. His book The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera will be published in paperback in March. Vanessa Barbara, a Brazilian journalist, is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the author of two novels and two nonfiction books in Portuguese. Christopher Benfey is the Mellon Professor of English Emeritus at Mount Holyoke. His most recent book is If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years. T. H. Breen is the author of several books on the American Revolution, most recently The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America. Andrew Butterfield is the President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts and a Fellow at the Italian Academy at Columbia. He is the author of The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio,…