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Ben Ratliff is the author of books including Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening and Coltrane: The Story of a Sound. A former music critic for the New York Times, he lives in New York City and teaches...
David Kamp is a longtime contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he has profiled such major figures of American culture as John Hughes, Sly Stone, Johnny Cash, Norman Rockwell, and Bruce Springsteen. He is also the author of, among other...
Angela Lovell is a best-selling author and award-winning playwright, director, screenwriter, podcaster, critic, writing instructor, and storyteller. She has written for VICE, MTV, Universal Studios, the New York Post, BUST, High Times, and many other outlets. You can hear her...
Scott Tobias is a freelance film and television writer from Chicago. He currently writes reviews for NPR and Variety, edits Oscilloscope Laboratories’ Musings blog, and contributes frequently to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vulture, and other publications.
Sheila O’Malley writes weekly film reviews for RogerEbert.com, and has also written for Liberties Journal, Film Comment, and the New York Times, among other outlets. In 2025, she wrote The Art and Making of “Frankenstein,” the official companion book to...
Eric Hynes is a New York–based journalist, film critic, and curator. His writing has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, Film Comment, Sight & Sound, and Reverse Shot. He is curator of film...
Charles Taylor writes about movies for the Yale Review and teaches creative writing and journalism at New York University. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles...
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...
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...
John Rockwell was a longtime arts critic and editor for the New York Times and the founding director of the Lincoln Center Festival. The author of four books (one about Lars von Trier), he is now a freelance writer and...