The Criterion Collection
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer and its sequel, The Committed. His other books include The Refugees and Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War.
Neyat Yohannes is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in MUBI Notebook, Bright Wall/Dark Room, KQED Arts, Cleo Film Journal, and the Chicago Review of Books, among other publications. She also sometimes tweets at @rhymeswithcat.
Mexican author Juan Villoro has been a visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, and Stanford universities. His books in English are the short-story collection The Guilty, the novel The Reef, the young-adult novel The Wild Book, and God Is Round, a...
Greg Tate is a Village Voice staff alum, musician, and cultural provocateur who lives high atop Harlem’s Sugar Hill. His books include Flyboy in the Buttermilk, Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader, Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience,...
Devika Girish is the coeditor of Film Comment magazine and a Talks programmer at the New York Film Festival. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Sight and Sound, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, and...
Mark Anthony Neal is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University and the author of several books, including Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Music Archive (NYU Press).
Art historian Elisa Lozano is the author and coauthor of several books about photography and Mexican film, including Tina Modotti: Una nueva mirada, 1929 and Manuel Fontanals: Escenógrafo del cine mexicano.
Lauren Groff is the author of five books. Her two most recent, the story collection Florida and the novel Fates and Furies, were both finalists for the National Book Award.
Cintra Wilson is a culture critic, a former New York Times fashion critic, and the author of four books, including Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style and A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease.
Moeko Fujii is a scholar and critic whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Aperture, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She writes a regular column on film for Orion magazine.