Michael Blair
Michael Blair is a writer in New York. He is a contributing editor at BOMB Magazine and coauthor of Young Marble Giants’ Colossal Youth (Bloomsbury, 2017).
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Elia Cugini
Elia Cugini is a PhD student and culture writer based in Manchester. His work can be found in Gawker, Dazed, Xtra, and elsewhere.
Meg Weeks
Meg Weeks is a historian, writer, and translator. Her writing on art and politics has appeared in n+1, Artforum, frieze, piauí, and Hyperallergic, and her translations of contemporary Brazilian fiction have been published by Adi, Two Lines Press, and Asymptote. Her translation ...
Steve Macfarlane
Originally from Seattle, Steve Macfarlane is a filmmaker, programmer, and writer based in Ridgewood, NY. He is an active volunteer at Spectacle, where he has curated screenings for over ten years, and has presented movies at MoMA, the Smithsonian National Museum of ...
Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno is the author of many books, including The Light Room, forthcoming from Riverhead in July. Tone, a collaborative work of criticism with Sofia Samatar, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in the fall. A new edition ...
Nastassja Martin
Nastassja Martin is a French author and anthropologist who has studied the Gwich’in people of Alaska and the Even people of the Kamchatka Peninsula. In addition to two books arising from this research, she has also written Croire aux fauves, a memoir recounting her ...
Sophie R. Lewis
Sophie R. Lewis is an editor and a translator from French and Portuguese. Authors she has translated include Stendhal, Jules Verne, Violette Leduc, Leila Slimani, Noémi Lefebvre, Sheyla Smanioto and Patrícia Melo. She received the French-American Foundation’s 2022 ...
Leah Finnegan
Leah Finnegan is a writer and editor in New York. She was most recently the editor in chief of Gawker.
Peter Orner
Peter Orner’s latest book, Still No Word from You, was a finalist for the PEN/ Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. The author of seven previous books, Orner is chair of the English and Creative department at Dartmouth College.
Robert N. Watson
Robert N. Watson is the distinguished professor of English at UCLA. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Oxford Poetry, and Prairie Schooner. His latest book is Cultural Evolution and its Discontents.
Ian Volner
Ian Volner has contributed articles on architecture, design, and urbanism to the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and Harper’s, and is a contributing editor at Architect and at Architecture Today. His books include Jorge Pardo: Public Projects and Commissions (with Hans ...
Peter Valente
Peter Valente is a writer, translator, and filmmaker. He is the author of eleven books and the translator of Gérard de Nerval’s The Illuminated (Wakefield Press, 2022) and Antonin Artaud’s The True Story of Jesus-Christ: Three Notebooks from Ivry (Infinity Land, ...