The Nostalgia Trap
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Jim Sleeper
Jim Sleeper, a lecturer in political science at Yale, is the author of Liberal Racism and The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York.
Stuart Schrader
Stuart Schrader is the author of Policing Revolution: Cold War Counterinsurgency at Home and Abroad, forthcoming from University of California Press.
Nick Pinkerton
Nick Pinkerton is a freelance journalist and film programmer. He has written about films for Sight & Sound, ArtForum, the Village Voice, Film Comment, among other publications.
M.H. Miller
M.H. Miller is the arts editor for The New York Times Style Magazine.
Raymond Biesinger
Raymond Biesinger is an illustrator who likes concepts, politics, and a mix of minimalism and maximalism. He makes music as one half of the Famines.
Paul Legault
Interested in translation as a generative practice for creating original works of writing and art, Paul Legault is the co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books and the author of four books of poetry: The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010), The Other Poems (Fence, 2011), ...
Michael Klein
Michael Klein is the author of When I Was a Twin (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015), The Talking Day (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013), The End of Being Known (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), and Track Conditions (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). He teaches in the MFA Program ...
Linda Hogan
A Chickasaw novelist, essayist, and environmentalist, Linda Hogan is the author of the poetry collections Calling Myself Home (1978); Daughters, I Love You (1981); Eclipse (1983); Seeing Through the Sun (1985), which won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus ...
Richie Hofmann
Richie Hofmann is the author of a collection of poems, Second Empire (2015). He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and his poems appear in the New Yorker, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, New England Review, ...
Joseph Huff-Hannon
Joseph Huff-Hannon is a Mexico City based senior campaigner with global advocacy group Avaaz, and a writer published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. He also once wrote a play about America’s gun culture inspired by a kid friendly, fully ...
Lauren Carroll Harris
Dr Lauren Carroll Harris is a writer, researcher and artist. She writes a video-on-demand column for The Guardian Australia called “Stream Lover,” and is a contributing editor for Kill Your Darlings. She has been published in The Toast, IndieWire and the Lifted Brow ...