A person with curly hair stands in a field of tall grass, wearing a shearling-lined aviator jacket and jeans. The sky is overcast, and trees are blurred in the background.

Eve Fairbanks

Eve Fairbanks writes about change in countries, values, and our ideas of ourselves. A senior editor at Foreign Affairs, her essays appear in The Washington Post and The Guardian, among other outlets. Her first book, The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning, was shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Literary Award and won the 2023 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Prize for Nonfiction. Raised in Virginia, she’s lived in Johannesburg and Nairobi for fifteen years.