Alex Bronzini-Vender is a writer living in New York. His work has appeared in the Guardian, American Affairs, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of Beautyland, a National Book Critics Circle Finalist, a New York Times Notable 100 and Time Magazine Top 10 Book of 2024. Awards include The O. Henry Prize, The Pushcart Prize, The Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writers Fellowship ...
Janna Shaftan is an electrical engineer and writer living in Brooklyn. She previously wrote a column called the Glimmer on local theater, music and film for the Brooklyn Eagle.
John Lechner is a journalist focused on central Africa, the Sahel, and the former Soviet Union. His history of Russian mercenaries and the Wagner Group will be published by Bloomsbury on March 4.
Juliet Escoria is the author of You Are the Snake (Soft Skull, 2024), Juliet the Maniac (Melville House, 2019), and Witch Hunt & Black Cloud: New and Collected Works (CLASH, 2023). She grew up in Del Mar, CA and now lives in West Virginia.
Nima Bassiri is assistant professor of literature and codirector of the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke University. He is a social theorist, historian, and philosopher of the human sciences, and author of Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the ...
Anna Krauthamer is a writer and a PhD candidate in English literature at Columbia University. Her research focuses on sexual violence and contemporary literature.
Daniel Lefferts is a writer living in the Hudson Valley. His debut novel, Ways and Means, was published in 2024 and his work has appeared in the Paris Review and elsewhere.
Caleb Brennan is a writer and journalist based out of Chicago. His work can be found in publications like The Nation, The American Prospect, In These Times, and The Appeal.
Tariq Kenney-Shawa is a U.S. policy fellow at Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian think tank and policy network, and a producer at AJ+. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, and The Nation, and ...