The Criterion Collection
K. Austin Collins is a film critic whose writing has appeared in Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. He is the author of forthcoming books on American documentary cinema and Black police officers. He lives in Brooklyn.
Stephanie LaCava is a writer based in New York City. She is the founder of Small Press, an independent publisher of works in translation and artist-led narratives for children. Her novel The Superrationals will come out next year from Semiotext(e).
Jyoti Mistry is a professor of film at Valand Academy at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and a visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. She works in film both as a research form and...
Alexander Chee is most recently the author of The Queen of the Night and How to Write an Autobiographical Novel.
Karan Mahajan is the author of the novels Family Planning and The Association of Small Bombs, a finalist for the 2016 National Book Awards.
Sloane Crosley is the author of the essay collections I Was Told There’d Be Cake, How Did You Get This Number, and Look Alive Out There and the novel The Clasp.
Rebecca Bengal is a writer born in western North Carolina and the author of the collection Strange Hours. Her stories, essays, and interviews have been published by the Paris Review, Aperture, the Guardian, the New Yorker, and Oxford American.
José B. Capino is an associate professor of English and cinema and media studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Dream Factories of a Former Colony and a forthcoming study of politics in Lino Brocka’s...
Jean-Pierre Berthomé is a professor emeritus at Rennes University, where, in the 1980s, he created the department of film studies. He contributes regularly to the French film monthly Positif and has written a dozen books, including on Demy, Orson Welles,...
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...