Author Bios

Anemona Hartocollis is a reporter for the New York Times.

Mike Davis is the author of Prisoners of the American Dream (1986), City of Quartz (1990), Late Victorian Holocausts (2001), Planet of Slums (2006) and Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (2007). He is past recipient of a MacArthur …

Felicity Barringer is national environmental correspondent for the New York Times based in Washington.