Born in Southern California’s Mojave desert in the late 60s, writer/editor Kimberly Bradley’s base has moved steadily eastward. After graduating from Middlebury College in 1990, she ventured to Hamburg, Germany, where she inadvertently found herself in a divided country attempting to put itself back together. Now based in Berlin, Bradley writes about art, design, architecture and travel for such publications as The New York Times, Metropolis, Artnet.com and Frame. She is also a frequent contributor to monographs and art catalogs as a translator or writer.

Photo by Paul

Siri Hustvedt is the author of four novels, The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, and The Sorrows of an American, as well as two books of essays, A Plea for Eros, and Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting.

R. Jay Magill Jr. is a writer and illustrator whose work has appeared in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, American Prospect, American Interest, Foreign Policy, The Believer, and Spiegel On-line, among others. He is the author of Chic Ironic Bitterness (Michigan, 2007), recipient of an Eric Hoffer Notable Book in Culture award. Magill holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Hamburg and lives in Berlin, where he works for the American Academy.

Illustration above also by R. Jay Magill