Leo Tolstoy

John McMillan

Orlando Figes 

Richard Reynolds 

Anatoly Dobrynin

Veniamin Kaverin

Robert D. Kaplan

Martin Amis

Alina Bronsky 

William James

J.M. Coetzee

Thomas Bernhard 

Chris Patten

 Fyodor Dostoevsky

James Buchan

Edith Wharton

Pico Iyer

Amy Chua

Marcel Proust

Georgi Gospodinov

Rachel Maddow

Christopher Buckley

Fred Anderson

J. Thomas Rimer