Eli Frankel
Eli Frankel researches technology and the history of political thought at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Sarah Arkebauer
Sarah Arkebauer holds a PhD in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. She is at work on a book about historical fiction and millennial girlhood. She lives in St. Louis.
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).
Eli Cugini
Eli Cugini is a PhD student and culture writer based in Manchester. His work can be found in Defector, 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 curator, writer and cartoonist based in Ridgewood, New York. He has organized film series at MoMA, the Smithsonian, Anthology Film Archives and Spectacle, among other places, and publishes a blog on film called Element X. His ...
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.