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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, ...

Patrick Sisson

Patrick Sisson writes about the tech, trends, and business shifts that impact our cities. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Bloomberg CityLab, the MIT Technology Review, and Vox.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) was one of the twentieth century’s leading intellectuals in Europe, known for his prolific work as a poet, novelist, translator, and film director, in which he railed against government corruption, consumerism, and political and social ...

The Koyama-san Notebook Workshop

The Koyama-san Notebook Workshop is a group of ten women who convened in March of 2015 to transcribe the handwritten notebooks left behind by Koyama-san, an unhoused woman who lived in a homeless encampment in a park in Tokyo.

Yücel Kayıran

Yücel Kayıran was born in Adana in 1964. His books include Çalgın (Metis, 2006), Son Akşam Yemeği (Metis, 2014), Efsus’a Yolculuk (Metis, 2017), and Stasis (Everest, 2022). Kayıran has received the Golden Orange Poetry Award, the Memet Fuat Criticism Award, and the ...

Laura Grace Ford

Laura Grace Ford is a London-based artist and writer whose multimedia narratives map the urban unconscious. She is author of Savage Messiah (Verso, 2011), and her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions, such as The Horror Show! (Somerset House, London, 2023), Digital ...