The State of the World

John Crace is a staff feature writer for The Guardian, where he is best known for the literary pastiche ‘Digested Read’. He has also written several books, including Vertigo: One Football Fan’s Fear of Success. His latest book is Taking the Lead, on post-Brexit Britain. A committed Spurs supporter, he lives in south-west London but travels to N17 for every home game. 

Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, and one of America’s leading reporters on issues of race and justice. He chronicled the early years of the Black Lives Matter movement and launched Fatal Force, a real-time national database of people shot and killed by the police. His most recent book, American Whitelash, chronicles the rise in white supremacist violence in the United States in the years since Barack Obama’s was elected.

David Marr is an author whose books include Patrick White: A Life, The High Price of Heaven, Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson) and Killing for Country. He has also written six Quarterly Essays and articles for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Saturday Paper and The Guardian, and worked as a reporter for Four Corners and presenter of Media Watch and Late Night Live.