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CONTRIBUTORS
Alexandra Schwartz (“Bounty Hunters,”
p. 52) joined the magazine in 2013, and
has been a staff writer since 2016.Adam Shatz (“The Tyke with a Toque,”
p. 28) is a contributing editor at the
London Review of Books.Rebecca Mead (The Talk of the Town,
p. 26) became a staff writer in 1997. She
is the author of “One Perfect Day: The
Selling of the American Wedding” and
“My Life in Middlemarch.”Wayne Thiebaud (Cover) is a professor
emeritus of art at the University of
California, Davis.Emily Nussbaum (On Television, p. 82),
the magazine’s television critic, won
the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
In June, she published “I Like to Watch:
Arguing My Way Through the TV
Revolution.”Charles Bethea (The Talk of the Town,
p. 23) is a staff writer who has contrib-
uted to The New Yorker since 2008. He
lives in Atlanta.John Edgar Wideman (Fiction, p. 62)
is the author of many books, includ-
ing, most recently, the story collection
“American Histories.”Adrienne Su (Poem, p. 46), a poet-in-
residence at Dickinson College, has
most recently published the book
“Living Quarters.”Kendra Allenby (Sketchbook, p. 57) is
a cartoonist based in New York City.Anthony Lane (The Current Cinema,
p. 84), a film critic for The New Yorker
since 1993, published his writings for
the magazine in the 2003 collection
“Nobody’s Perfect.”Naomi Fry (The Talk of the Town,
p. 27) became a staff writer last year.
She writes for newyorker.com about
culture.Sarah Paley (Shouts & Murmurs, p. 35)
has written for film and television.
Her poetry has been featured in Bar-
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has been a staff writer since 2001. He
is at work on a book about his grand-
father’s experience in wartime Alsace.
Rachel Monroe (“On the Nose,” p. 36),
a contributing writer for The Atlantic,
is the author of “Savage Appetites: Four
True Stories of Women, Crime, and
Obsession.”
Philip Deloria (A Critic at Large, p. 70)
is a professor of history at Harvard.
His most recent book is “Becoming
Mary Sully: Toward an American In-
dian Abstract.”
Carrie Battan (Pop Music, p. 80) started
contributing to the magazine in 2015,
and became a staff writer in 2018.
Edward Hirsch (Poem, p. 66) will pub-
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by Night,” in February.
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and the author of “Furious Hours:
Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of
Harper Lee.”
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and growing up black and queer.
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