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Joshua Clover
Joshua Clover’s books include Tranche/Syntagma, The Totality for Kids, and 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About.
Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander’s books include Core Samples from the World, and several books of translation: Fungus Skull Eye Wing: Selected Poems of Alphonso D’Aquino, Watchword by Pura López Colomé, and (with Kyoko Yoshida) Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao ...
Susan Stewart
Susan Stewart is the author of a book of poems, Red Rover, and a prose meditation, The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making.
Matthea Harvey
Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. Her third book of poems, Modern Life, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable ...
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.
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.