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Thomas Meaney
Thomas Meaney, a writer and a historian, is working on a book about American thinkers and decolonization.

Jake Lamar
Jake Lamar is the author, most recently, of the play Brothers in Exile. He lives in Paris where his latest novel Postérité was published by Rivages.

Robert Westbrook
Robert Westbrook is a history professor at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth.

Yasmin Nair
Yasmin Nair is a writer, activist, and academic working on her first book, Strange Love: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Invention of Social Justice.

Alex Cuadros
Alex Cuadros used to cover the ultra-rich at Bloomberg News. He’s the author of Brazillionaires and lives in Brooklyn.

Bojan Louis
Bojan Louis is a Diné writer living in La Rioja, Spain, with a first collection of poetry forth-coming in 2017.

Jim Krusoe
Jim Krusoe is the author of Erased, Toward You, and other books.

Nyuol Lueth Tong
Nyuol Lueth Tong is a writer, critic, and playwright based in San Francisco. Editor of There Is a Country, the first ever anthology of short fiction from his native country of South Sudan, Tong studied philosophy and comparative literature at Duke University and fiction (MFA) at ...

Joel Whitney
Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter @joel_whitney.

Lindsay Ballant
Lindsay Ballant is art director of The Baffler. Born into the fates of being a Scorpio, an early millennial, and an Orioles fan, she’s an ex-New Yorker and self-identifies her home state of Maryland to be part of The North. Previously, Lindsay applied her love of shapes and ...