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Peter Godfrey-Smith

Australian philosopher of science and author who writes about evolution, animal minds and consciousness, often drawing on encounters with marine life.

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Peter Singer

Australian moral philosopher Peter Singer writes clear, argument-driven works on animal ethics, global poverty, bioethics, altruism and our obligations to others.

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Philip Zimbardo

American social psychologist and author Philip Zimbardo wrote about situational power, obedience, shyness, time perspective, evil, and heroism.

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Rabih Alameddine is a Lebanese-American novelist and painter whose work weaves Beirut, queer life, and the Lebanese Civil War with mordant humor. Winner of the 2025 National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose lucid, lyrical books explore ocean life, ecology, and the environmental costs of pesticides.

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Ralph Manheim

American translator (1907–1992) who put Günter Grass, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Peter Handke and Michael Ende into English. He made the first English version of The Neverending Story, published in 1983.

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Ralph Steadman

British illustrator and cartoonist known for ink-spattered satire and for his drawings for Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He has also illustrated Orwell, Carroll and Stevenson, and written and drawn his own books.

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Rebecca Skloot

Rebecca Skloot is an American science writer known for narrative nonfiction about medicine, ethics, race and the people affected by scientific research.

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Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan is an Iranian-born American writer and scholar of religions whose nonfiction examines faith, history and political power. His books include Zealot and No god but God.

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Richard Adams

English novelist Richard Adams wrote animal-centered adventures and fantasies, most famously Watership Down, a tale of rabbits seeking a safe home in the English countryside.

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Richard Pevear

American translator and poet who, with Larissa Volokhonsky, renders Russian classics into English, including Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Gogol's tales.

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Richard Powers

American novelist Richard Powers writes intellectually ambitious fiction about science, technology, art and the living world. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Overstory.

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