John Yau
John Yau is a poet, fiction writer, and art critic. Diary of Small Discontents: New and Selected Poems 1974–2024 will be published by Omnidawn in Fall 2025.
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Ann Friedman
Ann Friedman is a columnist for New York magazine’s website. She lives in Los Angeles.
Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch was one of the leading American social critics of the last half-century. His books included The New Radicalism in America, The Culture of Narcissism, and The True and Only Heaven.
Carmen Giménez Smith
Carmen Giménez Smith is a poetry editor at The Nation and publisher of Noemi Press. She is the author of six collections of poetry including Cruel Futures and Be Recorder (both forthcoming).
C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was one of the leading social critics of the twentieth century. His books included The New Men of Power, White Collar, The Power Elite, and The Sociological Imagination.
Belén Fernández
Belén Fernández is an opinion columnist for Al Jazeera and the author most recently of The Darién Gap: A Reporter’s Journey through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas (Rutgers University Press, 2025). Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of ...
Christian Lorentzen
Christian Lorentzen is an editor at the London Review of Books.
Farran Nehme
Farran Nehme writes about classic Hollywood film at her blog, Self-Styled Siren.
Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian’s most recent book is Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy.
Dmitry Gorchev
Dmitry Gorchev was an illustrator, educator, and author who died at age forty-six in a village outside St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2010.