Photograph of German-English novelist W.G. Sebald.

W.G. Sebald

(1944 - 2001)

Thomas Meaney

John McPhee

Yuval Noah Harari

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln sitting in a chair.

Abraham Lincoln

(1809 - 1865)

Welsh clergyman and historian Gerald of Wales.

Gerald of Wales

(c. 1146 - c. 1223)

Varlam Shalamov

(1907 - 1982)

Eleanor Perényi

(1918 - 2009)

Svante Arrhenius

(1859 - 1927)

Amitav Ghosh

Kate Luckie

(1843 - 1937)

Photograph of Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

(1907 - 1964)

Yi Kyubo

(1168 - 1241)

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Plato

(c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC)

Fernand Braudel

(1902 - 1985)

American diplomat, scholar, and conservationist George Perkins Marsh.

George Perkins Marsh

(1801 - 1882)

Portrait of Chinese fiction writer Pu Songling.

Pu Songling

(1640 - 1715)

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens

(1812 - 1870)

William Stanley Jevons

(1835 - 1882)

Photograph of Astra Taylor by Isabella De Maddalena

Astra Taylor

Ptolemy

(c. 100 - c. 170)

American author and journalist Alan Weisman.

Alan Weisman

Saint Agobard

(c. 770 - 840)

Depiction of German abbess and mystic St. Hildegard.

Hildegard of Bingen

(1098 - 1179)

Illustration of a man in fancy dress

Cassiodorus

(c. 490 - c. 585)

Black and white photograph of historian and man of letters Henry Adams.

Henry Adams

(1838 - 1918)

James Inhofe

Carl Sagan

(1934 - 1996)

He Zhu

(c. 1066 - c. 1100)

French theologian John Calvin.

John Calvin

(1509 - 1564)

Loren Eiseley

(1907 - 1977)

Historian and novelist Philipp Blom.

Philipp Blom

Russell Means

(1939 - 2012)

Isidore of Seville

(c. 560 - 636)

John Burroughs

(1837 - 1921)

Octavia E. Butler

(1947 - 2006)

Masanobu Fukuoka

(1913 - 2008)

Ken Saro-Wiwa

(1941 - 1995)

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Aristotle

(384 BC - 322 BC)

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Lewis H. Lapham

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Robinson Jeffers

(1887 - 1962)

Don Marquis

(1878 - 1937)

Kalidasa

(c. 600 - c. 650)

Kyle Harper

Kyle Harper

Joseph Stalin

(c. 1878 - 1953)

Tripadvisor

Barry Lopez

(1945 - 2020)

Timothy Morton

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gabriel García Márquez

(1927 - 2014)

Photograph of Greta Thunberg by Anders Hellberg (CC BY 4.0)

Greta Thunberg

David Wallace-Wells

Charles Fort

(1874 - 1932)

Enheduanna

(c. 2285 BC - 2250 BC)

Emperor Wen

(203 BC - 157 BC)

Tsitsi Dangarembga

R. Buckminster Fuller

(1895 - 1983)

Eugène Huzar

(1820 - 1890)

Al-Masudi

(c. 893 - c. 956)

Bruno Latour

(1947 - 2022)

Watsuji Tetsuro

(1889 - 1960)

J.G. Farrell

(1935 - 1979)

Bessie Head

(1937 - 1986)

Black and white photograph of a young H.G. Wells with a mustache.

H.G. Wells

(1866 - 1946)

Steve Milloy

John Arbuthnot

(1667 - 1735)

Abby Jane Morrell

Abby Jane Morrell

(1809 - c. 1855)

Engraving of a bust of Lucretius.

Lucretius

(c. 95 BC - c. 50 BC)

Tété-Michel Kpomassie

Seated man with a large white beard wearing a dark suit

Karl Marx

(1818 - 1883)

Italian artist, engineer, and scientist Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci

(1452 - 1519)

British author Aldous Huxley.

Aldous Huxley

(1894 - 1963)

John Evelyn

(1620 - 1706)

Caroline Henderson

(1877 - 1966)

Portrait of French political philosopher Montesquieu.

Montesquieu

(1689 - 1755)

Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

Mark Twain

(1835 - 1910)

Katharine Viner

Ovid

(43 BC - c. 17)

Susan Fenimore Cooper

Susan Fenimore Cooper

(1813 - 1894)

Ibn Khaldun

(1332 - 1406)

Portrait of third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson

(1743 - 1826)