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David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. He has written on film for the New York Review of Books, the Threepenny Review, and other journals. His most recent book is Moral Imagination, a collection of essays.

Jessica Barrow Dawson is a New York City–based arts reporter, critic, and professor. She is currently at work on a memoir.

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...

Girish Shambu teaches at Canisius College, in Buffalo, New York, and writes about film culture. He is the author of The New Cinephilia and the editor of Film Quarterly’s online column Quorum.

Jana Prikryl is a senior editor at the New York Review of Books. Her essays on film and photography appear in the New York Review and The Nation, and her poems have been published in the New Yorker, the London...

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...

David Oubiña is a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, the Universidad del Cine, and New York University. His books include Estudio crítico sobre “La Ciénaga” and El silencio y sus bordes: Modos de lo extremo en la literatura...

Kristin Ross is a professor of comparative literature at New York University. She is the author of numerous books, including Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995) and Communal Luxury.

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...

Lena Dunham is a writer and filmmaker from New York City.