The Criterion Collection
Robin D. G. Kelley is a professor of history at the University of California Los Angeles. His books include Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times; Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times...
Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for the New York Times Opinion section and the cohost of the podcast Unclear and Present Danger. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Michael Harriot is an award-winning writer, founder of the journalism collective ContrabandCamp.com, and author of the New York Times best seller Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America.
Phoebe Chen is a writer, lecturer, and historian of visual culture based in Brooklyn. Her essays and criticism can be found in the New York Times, Artforum, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, Apartamento, Aperture, and more. She...
Shannon J. Effinger has been a freelance arts journalist and cultural critic for over a decade. Her work regularly appears in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, AFAR magazine, W magazine, Pitchfork, Jazziz, and...
Kaveh Akbar’s poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. He has published two poetry collections—Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf—and is the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on...
Leo Goldsmith is an assistant professor of culture and media at the New School, a film critic, and a programming advisor for the New York Film Festival.
Tanya Goldman holds a PhD in cinema studies from New York University. She currently teaches at Bowdoin College.
Originally from Mexico City, Carlos Aguilar is a Los Angeles–based film critic and journalist. Aguilar’s work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and IndieWire, among others. He is a member of...
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...