The Swissmakers

Mexican author Juan Villoro has been a visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, and Stanford universities. His books in English are the short-story collection The Guilty, the novel The Reef, the young-adult novel The Wild Book, and God Is Round, a...

Emily VanDerWerff is the critic at large for Vox and was the first TV editor of the A.V. Club. Her writing has also appeared in Grantland and the Los Angeles Times. She is the coauthor of Monsters of the Week:...

Greg Tate is a Village Voice staff alum, musician, and cultural provocateur who lives high atop Harlem’s Sugar Hill. His books include Flyboy in the Buttermilk, Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader, Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience,...

Carol Gilligan is best known for In a Different Voice, “the little book that started a revolution.” She was the Graham Professor of Gender Studies at Harvard and is now University Professor at New York University School of Law. Her...

Devika Girish is the coeditor of Film Comment magazine and a Talks programmer at the New York Film Festival. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Sight and Sound, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, and...

Inkoo Kang is a critic at the Hollywood Reporter, where she writes about film and television. Previously, she was a staff writer at Slate and a critic at MTV News and the Village Voice. She has written widely about pop...

Mark Anthony Neal is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University and the author of several books, including Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Music Archive (NYU Press).

Jericho Brown is the author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National...

Violet Lucca is the author of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials. She intermittently updates her newsletter, A Closer Lucca, and is working on her audacious return to podcasting.

Danielle Amir Jackson is a Memphis-born writer and the former editor of Oxford American. She is writing a book about women in the blues.