The Swissmakers

Jeff Chang is a cultural critic and the author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post–Civil Rights America, and We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race...

Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator whose third book of poetry, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Born in Minsk, Belarus, she teaches at Cornell University and writes in English and Belarusian.

Ela Bittencourt works as a critic and curator in the U.S. and Brazil and consults for a number of international film festivals. She also runs the film site Lyssaria.

Lauren Groff is the author of five books. Her two most recent, the story collection Florida and the novel Fates and Furies, were both finalists for the National Book Award.

Jonathan Owen is a writer and researcher specializing in Eastern and Central European cinema, avant-gardes, and cult film. He is the author of Avant-Garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties (2011) and the coeditor of A Reader...

Cintra Wilson is a culture critic, a former New York Times fashion critic, and the author of four books, including Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style and A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease.

Moeko Fujii is a scholar and critic whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Aperture, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She writes a regular column on film for Orion magazine.

Michelle Parkerson is an award-winning filmmaker based in Washington, D.C., whose work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and the American Film Institute. She has documented the lives of LGBTQ icon Audre Lorde (A Litany...

Mark Asch is the author of the New York Movies volume of the Close-Ups series of film books and a contributor to Film Comment, Sight and Sound, Reverse Shot, Filmmaker, Screen Slate, and other publications.

Historian and essayist Enrique Krauze was born in Mexico in 1947. He is the author of Mexico: Biography of Power (1997) and Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America (2011), among many other books, and is the editor in chief...