Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, essayist, poet, and musician. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he is the author of more than a dozen books, several of which are available from NYRB, including the novels Friend of My Youth, Sojourn, A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag, and Freedom Song ; the work of memoir and music criticism Finding the Raga ; and Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2023 . Formerly a professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia, Chaudhuri is now a professor of creative writing and the director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical at Ashoka University. Chaudhuri has won many prizes, incluidng the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Los Angeles Prize for fiction, and the Commwealth Writers' Prize. He has made everal recordings of Indian classical music and experimental music. James Wood has been a staff writer and book critic at The New Yorker since 2007. In 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. The author of several books of essays and two novels, he is a professor of the practice of literary criticism at Harvard University.