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Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. Their books include The Lonely City, Funny Weather, and Crudo. Their latest novel, The Silver Book, is about the making of Federico Fellini’s Casanova and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s apocalyptic masterpiece, Salò, or The...
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.
Chrystel Oloukoï is an artist, film critic, and curator focusing on experimental cinema, queer cinema, and Black continental and diasporic cinema. They hold a PhD from Harvard University and work at the University of Washington. Their writing has appeared in...
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.
Jesse Thorn is a podcaster, comedian, and culture critic in Los Angeles. He is the host of the NPR arts and culture program Bullseye and cohost of the comedy shows Jordan, Jesse, Go! and Judge John Hodgman. In 2024, he...
Kushanava Choudhury is the author of The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta (Bloomsbury, 2018). His upcoming book on Kerala will be published in 2026.
Fred Kaplan is the War Stories columnist for Slate and the author of seven books, including The Insurgents (a Pulitzer Prize finalist for general nonfiction) and A Capital Calamity, a satirical novel.
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...
Gonzalo M. Pavés is a professor in the department of art history at the Universidad de La Laguna. His research interests include classical film, Spanish cinema, and comics. He has published several papers and chapters nationally and internationally and various...
Joseph Fahim is a film critic, curator, and lecturer. His writing has appeared in Sight and Sound, MUBI’s Notebook, BBC Culture, and Middle East Eye, and has been translated into eight languages. He has curated film programs in the U.S.,...