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Siddhartha Deb
Siddhartha Deb is the author of two novels and The Beautiful and the Damned, a book of narrative nonfiction that was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for political writing in the UK, and the winner of the PEN Open award in the United States. The book was published in India ...

Brooke Magnanti
Brooke Magnanti is a scientist and author. She is the author of The Sex Myth: Why Everything We’re Told is Wrong. Follow her on Twitter @b_magnanti.

Scott Beauchamp
Scott Beauchamp is a writer and veteran who lives in Maine. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and the Village Voice, among other places.

Hannah K. Gold
Hannah K. Gold writes on social justice and literature for publication, and composes bad poetry and erotica for herself. She is based in Brooklyn. Follow her @togglecoat.

Helaine Olen
Helaine Olen is the author of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry, a contributing editor for Pacific Standard, and a regular Slate contributor.

Ethan Thompson
Ethan Thompson is the co-editor of How to Watch Television. You can follow him @swigzine.

Ned Resnikoff
Ned Resnikoff is a freelance writer and graduate student in public policy at UC Berkeley.

Robert Zaretsky
Robert Zaretsky teaches at the Honors College, University of Houston. His book Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague, was published in 2022 by University of Chicago Press.

Maurice Isserman
Maurice Isserman teaches at Hamilton College. He is the co-author of the 2008 book Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes.

Diana Clarke
Diana Clarke lives in West Virginia. She writes frequently for the Internet about sex, technology, class, and identity. A regular contributor to The Billfold and a reviews editor at the [PANK] blog, she tweets at @dclarkwithane.