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Mike Lala

Mike Lala is the author of Exit Theater (2016) and The Unreal City, forthcoming from Tupelo Press. His installations, performances, and libretti include Whale Fall (2021), Madeleines: Tell Me What It Was Like (2020, with Iris McCloughan), Oedipus in the District (2018–19), ...

Lisabeth During

Lisabeth During is associate professor of philosophy and aesthetics at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and is the author of The Chastity Plot (2021). She is writing a book on comatose rape and the problem of knowledge.

Félix Decombat

Félix Decombat is a French illustrator. He has worked with Bloomberg Businessweek, the New York Times, Financial Times and others.

Will Burns

Will Burns lives in Buckinghamshire, England. His collection of poems, Country Music (2020), won the Laurel Prize for Best First Collection, and his novel, The Paper Lantern (2021), was picked in the Observer’s Debuts of the Year.

Maxwell G. Burkey

Maxwell G. Burkey received his PhD from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is working on a book manuscript about radical politics in America.

Erik Baker

Erik Baker is the author of Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America. He teaches the history of science and capitalism at Harvard University and is an associate editor of The Drift. 

Trevor Jackson

Trevor Jackson is assistant professor of economic history at George Washington University. His first book, Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, is out now from Cambridge University Press.  

Mark Williams

Mark Williams’ writing has appeared in The Southern Review, Rattle, New Ohio Review, Drunk Monkeys, and the anthologies, American Fiction, The Boom Project, and Running Wild Anthology of Stories, Volume 5. Kelsay Books is publishing his poetry collection, Carrying ...

Tareq Baconi

Tareq Baconi is a writer. He is completing a book about queer love in Amman. He lives in London.

Sam Russek

Sam Russek is a writer from Houston, Texas. He’s currently a reporter-researcher at The New Republic.

Max Fox

Max Fox is a writer, editor, and translator.

Meghan Racklin

Meghan Racklin is a Brooklyn-based writer. She writes about books and culture.