Catherine O’Neil, graduate of the University of Chicago, is author of With Shakespeare’s Eyes: Pushkin’s Creative Appropriation of Shakespeare (2003) and for many years was editor of Pushkin’s Review. She is associate professor of Russian at the United States Naval Academy.

Zbigniew Janowski is author of Cartesian Theodicy (2000), Augustinian-Cartesian Index (2004; French edition 2000), How to Read Descartes’s Meditations (2011), and editor of Leszek Kolakowski’s The Two Eyes of Spinoza and My Correct Views on Everything.