Acclaimed American writer and cultural critic and author of the best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist.
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher, and environmental activist.
Former Microsoft executive and founder of Room to Read, an NGO focused on literacy and gender equality in education.
American academic, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York and former president of the New York Public Library.
Swiss conductor who founded and conducted the Basler Chamber Orchestra and Basel Chamber Choir.
American art historian and Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.
Groundbreaking American investigative journalist, writer, and author, most remembered for his weekly newsletter.
American-born violinist and conductor, widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century.
Canadian-American author and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize and the National Medal of Arts.