The Criterion Collection
Ira Bhaskar is a professor of cinema studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has written widely on melodrama, Indian cinema, and other subjects, and is a coauthor of Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema (2009). She is currently editing...
Stephen Cone is a Chicago-based filmmaker whose films include Princess Cyd, Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party, and The Wise Kids.
A. L. Kennedy has won a variety of UK and international book awards, including a Lannan Literary Award, the Costa Book of the Year Award, and the Heinrich Heine Prize. She has written nine novels, six short-story collections, three books...
Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer and critic for the New Yorker. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2024 and 2025. His 2024 debut novel, Great Expectations, was a finalist for the National Book Critics...
Colm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including The Master and Brooklyn, and two collections of stories. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and...
Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You. A new book of fiction, Cleanness, is forthcoming.
April Wolfe is a film critic whose writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, Film Comment, and other publications. She hosts the film podcast Switchblade Sisters.
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).