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Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. In 1998, he received a George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting for his Paris Journal essays. He edited Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology, and in 1990, co-curated "High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture" for the Museum of Modern Art.Clive James's many books include three volumes of memoirs, a treatise on modern celebrity, a compendium of his 10 years as a television critic, four novels, a collection of poems, and six collections of critical essays. He has hosted numerous studio shows and specials for British television, and has been a contributor to the The New Yorker since 1987. Bernard-Henri Levy, one of France's leading philosophers, is the author of more than 20 books, among them Barbarism with a Human Face and, most recently, the best-selling Who Killed Daniel Pearl? He is the editor of What Good Are Intellectuals: 44 Writers Share their Thoughts, and the writer and director of the documentary films Bosna! and Le Jour et la Nuit. Simon Schama has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1994. His 1995 essays on Mondrian, Rembrandt, and the "Haute Couture" show at the Metropolitan Museum won the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism. A collection of his New Yorker essays on art, Hang-Ups, will be published in November in the U.K. His many other books include Landscape and Memory, and the trilogy A History of Britain. He is a Professor at Columbia University. Anna Deavere Smith was nominated for two 1994 Tony Awards for her one-woman play Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, based on the aftermath of the Rodney King beating. Her one-woman play Fires in the Mirror was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993. She is also the author of Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines and currently teaches at New York University.
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