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Alex Traub

For a biography of Robert Silvers

Alex Traub is a reporter on the Obituaries desk of The New York Times. Previously, he worked at two Indian papers, The Hindustan Times and The Telegraph of Kolkata, and at The New York Review of Books, where he was one of the last assistants of its editor and co-founder Robert Silvers. He is under contract with Farrar, Straus to write a book about Silvers focusing on his relationships with the leading writers and thinkers of his day and his impact on debates about the Vietnam War, Zionism, human rights, the politics of identity, the war on terror, and other major controversies in politics and culture.