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Lauren Tamaki is a Canadian illustrator living in New York. Her clients include the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Pentagram, Penguin, and the New Yorker. She is currently working on a book about the incarceration of Japanese Americans...

Beatrice Loayza is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She is a contributing film critic for the New York Times, and her work has appeared in Artforum, 4Columns, Film Comment, the Nation, and other publications.

Blair McClendon is an editor, filmmaker, and writer. His film work has screened at film festivals around the world. His writing has been published in n+1, the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. He lives in New...

Jay Caspian Kang is a writer at large for the New York Times Magazine.

Nicolas Rapold is a critic and programmer. He is the host of the podcast The Last Thing I Saw, author of the book The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki, and former editor in chief of Film Comment. His work appears in...

Carol Gilligan is best known for In a Different Voice, “the little book that started a revolution.” She was the Graham Professor of Gender Studies at Harvard and is now University Professor at New York University School of Law. Her...

Devika Girish is the coeditor of Film Comment magazine and a Talks programmer at the New York Film Festival. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Sight and Sound, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, and...

Mayukh Sen is the author of Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star (2025), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He teaches film and television reporting and criticism at New York University and...

Cintra Wilson is a culture critic, a former New York Times fashion critic, and the author of four books, including Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style and A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease.

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.