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Michael Lipkin

Michael Lipkin is a professor of German and scholar of realism at Hamilton College. His writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, New Left Review, the Merkur, and the Nation. His novel, Eileen and Lucy, is ...

Banu Mushtaq

Banu Mushtaq is a writer, activist and lawyer in the state of Karnataka, southern India. Mushtaq began writing within the progressive protest literary circles in southwestern India in the 1970s and 1980s: critical of the caste and class system, the Bandaya Sahitya movement gave ...

Deepa Bhasthi

Deepa Bhasthi is a writer and literary translator based in Kodagu, southern India. Her columns, essays, and cultural criticism have been published in India and internationally. Her published translations from Kannada include a novel by Kota Shivarama Karanth and a collection of ...

Benjamin Balthaser

Benjamin Balthaser is associate professor of multiethnic U.S. literature at Indiana University, South Bend, and the author of Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War (University of Michigan Press, 2016) and Citizens of the ...

Stephen Piccarella

Stephen Piccarella writes fiction and nonfiction. His work has appeared in The Nation, n+1, The New Inquiry, and The Believer.

Austyn Wohlers

Austyn Wohlers is a writer from Atlanta, currently living in New York. Her first novel Hothouse Bloom is forthcoming from Hub City Press on August 26th, 2025. Her work has also appeared in Guernica, The Massachusetts Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Also a ...

Kevin Okoth

Kevin Ochieng Okoth is a writer based in London, and the author of Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (2023). He is a member of the Salvage editorial collective and a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.

Francis Northwood

Francis Northwood is a writer who lives in New York.

Andrew Holter

Andrew Holter is a writer living in Chicago. His work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Rolling Stone, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications.

Leif Weatherby

Leif Weatherby is associate professor of German at New York University. His forthcoming book is called Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism.

Cynthia Zarin

Cynthia Zarin is the author of six collections of poems, including most recently Next Day: New and Selected Poems, as well as a novel, Inverno, two books of essays, and several books for children.

Ariel Yelen

Ariel Yelen is a poet whose work has been published in Poetry, BOMB, the American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, and other magazines. “All morning, tax evasion” appears in the collection I Was Working (Princeton 2024).