The Criterion Collection
Alexandra Schwartz is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a cohost of the magazine’s culture podcast Critics at Large.
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the best-selling memoir In the Dream House and the short-story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for a National Book Award. Her essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared...
Tayler Montague is a writer, curator, native New Yorker, and director of the award-winning short film In Sudden Darkness.
Jonathan R. Lack is a PhD candidate in Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa, the host of the anime history and review podcast Japanimation Station, and the author of the book 200 Reviews. You can read his work at...
Jennifer Padjemi is a journalist, writer, and cultural critic focusing on race, aesthetics, and gender representation. She has published two books in France, including Féminismes & Pop Culture (2021), and has hosted several podcast series.
Dessane Lopez Cassell is a New York–based editor, writer and curator. She gravitates toward film and visual art concerned with race, gender, labor, and myths of paradise.
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian. Her twenty books include Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993, and the novels The Cosmopolitans and Maggie Terry. Her feature-film credits...
Domino Renee Perez is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published numerous books and articles on topics ranging from film and popular culture to folklore and young-adult fiction.
Cornelia Funke is a German storyteller and illustrator, published in more than forty languages. She lives in Volterra, Tuscany.
Alex Pappademas is a senior editor at GQ and the coauthor, with Joan LeMay, of Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan.