The Work

Sep 22, 1997 — If one writes a great chapter in a novel, it will seldom be taken out of a book for reasons of time or rhythm. A novel allows you longer arms, a deeper breath. Anthony’s scenes of Kip in England, which...

Grace Byron is a writer from the Midwest based in Queens, New York, whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Bookforum, Granta, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Herculine, is out now.

Doreen St. Félix is the television critic at the New Yorker. Her work has also appeared in New York magazine, n+1, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. In 2017, she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for...

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.

Michelle Parkerson is an award-winning filmmaker based in Washington, D.C., whose work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and the American Film Institute. She has documented the lives of LGBTQ icon Audre Lorde (A Litany...

Hillary Weston is staff writer and social media director at the Criterion Collection. Her work has appeared in Film Quarterly, BOMB, Interview, and BlackBook.

James Harvey is a playwright, essayist and critic. He is the author of Movie Love in the Fifties and Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges. His work has appeared in the New York Review of Books and the...

Bruce Eder is a longtime journalist, film writer, and audio/video producer whose work has appeared in the Village Voice, Newsday, Current Biography, Interview, the Oxford American, AllMusic, and AllMovie. He has been a frequent contributor to the Criterion Collection and...

May 29, 2026 — We’re revisiting work by Tarkovsky, Pelechian, and Portabella as well as two films with the word Dead in the title.

May 21, 2026 — The Cannes sidebar wraps with prizes for three stories about teenage girls and another about a determined adult woman.