The Criterion Collection
Anne E. Duggan is an associate professor of French at Wayne State University, a coeditor of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, and the author of Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy.
Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of twelve crime novels, including the New York Times best seller The Turnout. Her latest novel, the national best seller El Dorado Drive, was published in June 2025. Formerly a writer on HBO’s The...
Emma Ríos is a comic book creator based in A Coruña, Spain. A former architect, she has been working full-time on comics for nearly six years, first at Boom! Studios, then at Marvel Comics, and now at Image Comics. Her...
Thomas Elsaesser is professor emeritus in the Department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of New German Cinema: A History (1989) and Fassbinder’s Germany: History Identity Subject (1996). His recent publications include European...
Peter Tonguette has written on the arts for numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, National Review, Sight & Sound, and Film Comment. He is currently writing a book about Peter Bogdanovich for...
Erica Wagner was born in New York and lives in London. Gravity, her collection of short stories, was published by Granta in 1997; Ariel’s Gift, a book about Ted Hughes’s “Birthday Letters,” was published by W. W. Norton in 2001;...
Lou Lumenick is the chief film critic of the New York Post. He has also written for Moving Image Source and been a guest programmer for Turner Classic Movies.
Evan Calder Williams is a writer, theorist, and artist. He is the author of Combined and Uneven Apocalypse and Roman Letters.
Annie Baker is a playwright living in Brooklyn. An anthology of her work, The Vermont Plays, is available from TCG. Her most recent play, The Flick, deals with movie love.