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Rachel Syme is a staff writer at the New Yorker and has also written for the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Bookforum. She is working on an upcoming book, entitled Magpie, for Alfred A. Knopf.
Justin Chang is a film critic at the New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air. He won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work at the Los Angeles Times.
Megan McGurk researches women’s pictures 1929–59 and hosts Sass Mouth Dames, a podcast and film club, in Dublin.
Lesley Chow is the author of the book You’re History: The 12 Strangest Women in Music and a film critic for Bright Lights Film Journal.
Odie Henderson is a film critic for RogerEbert.com and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He has contributed essays to such publications as Slate, Vulture, the Village Voice, and Slant Magazine, and has appeared on NPR’s Pop...
Mike McQuade is a creator living in Richmond, Virginia. He has spent his career creating illustrations that call attention to important issues facing our world today, for outlets such as the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, New York...
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...
Alejandro G. Iñárritu is an Oscar-winning director and writer. His films include Amores perros (2000), Babel (2006), Birdman (2014), The Revenant (2015), and Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022).