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.
