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Graeme Turner is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Queensland, and the author of several books, including "Understanding Celebrity" and "Ordinary People and the Media."

James Fallon is a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine.

Lyndall Gordon is a senior research fellow at Oxford University, and the author of several biographies, including "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds."

Liam Vaughan is an investigative journalist for Bloomberg and the author of "Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History".

Emerson Brooking is a fellow at the Atlantic Council and the co-author of "LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media."

David Mikics is a professor of English at the University of Houston, and the recent author of "Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker."

Peter Marshall is a historian from the University of Sussex and the author of "Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism."

Adam Zamoyski is a historian and the author of several books about Napoleon, most recently, "Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth."

Peter Fritzsche is a historian at University of Illinois, and the author of several best-selling books, most recently, "Hitler's First Hundred Days: How Germans Embraced the Third Reich."

Marya Hornbacher is a best-selling author of "Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia" and "Madness: A Bipolar Life".