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Chris Vognar is a culture journalist. He writes for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. He is a former Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University.
Edward Baron Turk is a professor emeritus of the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books on the performing arts include Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema (Harvard University Press), Hollywood Diva:...
Aisha Harris is a critic and a cohost of National Public Radio’s podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour. She is the author of the essay collection Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me.
Film critic Stéphane Delorme was editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 2009 to 2020. He was a programmer at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival when Daddy Longlegs made its world premiere there in 2009.
Julian Kimble has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, GQ, the Ringer, and other publications.
Robin Robertson has published seven books of poetry. The Long Take (2018) won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction and was the first poem to be short-listed for the Booker Prize.
Karen Han is a culture critic and screenwriter whose work has been published in outlets such as the New York Times, the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, VICE, the Village Voice, New York magazine, and Slate. She is the author of the...
Amy Abugo Ongiri is a professor and the director of Ethnic Studies at the University of Portland. Their book Spectacular Blackness explores the cultural politics of the Black Power movement, particularly the Black Arts Movement’s search to define a “Black...
Bilal Qureshi is an essayist and broadcaster whose criticism and reporting have appeared in Film Quarterly, the Washington Post, and the New York Times and on the BBC and NPR.