Authors

Jordan G. Teicher

Jordan G. Teicher is a Philadelphia-based writer. He has written for the New York Times, The New Republic, and Jacobin, among other publications.

Lydia Kiesling

Lydia Kiesling is the author of The Golden State, a novel published by MCD.

Jack Hanson is a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies at Yale University. His writing has appeared in Commonweal, Kenyon Review Online, PN Review, The TLS, and elsewhere. You can follow him on Twitter @j_ckh_ns_n.

Jérôme Tubiana

Jérôme Tubiana is a journalist and researcher specializing in the Horn of Africa and the Sahara. He has written for Foreign Affairs, the London Review of Books and The Nation, and is the author of the graphic novel Guantánamo Kid.

Bud Smith

Bud Smith’s fiction has appeared at publications including The Paris Review, Bomb, and The Nervous Breakdown. He is the author of the novel Teenager, among others. He lives in Jersey City.

Marco Roth

Marco Roth is a writer, editor, and critic. He is not, to his knowledge, Evan Dara.

Maya C. Popa

Maya C. Popa is the author of American Faith and a second collection forthcoming with W. W. Norton in 2022. She is the poetry editor of Publishers Weekly and a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Allyson Paty

Allyson Paty’s poetry appears in publications including in Poetry and The Yale Review, and in several chapbooks, most recently Five O’Clock on the Shore. Her garbage can be found on Instagram at @trash_days.

Jenny Odell

Jenny Odell is a multidisciplinary artist and the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.

Bryce Covert

Bryce Covert is a contributing writer at The Nation and an independent journalist who covers the economy. She has written for publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired, The New Republic, and elsewhere.

Szilárd Borbély

Szilárd Borbély was an academic, writer, and poet. His verse collection Halotti pompa: Szekvenciák (Final Matters: Sequences) and his novel Nincstelenek (The Dispossessed) are considered among the most important works of modern Hungarian ...

Ghassan Zaqtan

Ghassan Zaqtan is the author of several poetry collections and novellas, including The Silence that Remains (Copper Canyon Press), Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me (Yale University Press), and Describing the Past (Seagull Books).

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