The New Yorker - 11.11.2019

CONTRIBUTORS

Jon Lee Anderson (“Blood Gold,” p. 40),

a staff writer, began contributing to

The New Yorker in 1998. He is the au-

thor of several books, including “Che

Guevara: A Revolutionary Life.”

Alexandra Schwartz (The Theatre, p. 84),

a theatre critic for the magazine, has

been a staff writer since 2016.

Adam Hochschild (“Obstruction of In-

justice,” p. 28) has written nine books,

the most recent of which is “Lessons

from a Dark Time: And Other Essays.”

Nick Paumgarten (“The Symptoms,”

p. 36) began writing for the maga-

zine in 2000.

Robin Coste Lewis (Poem, p. 66) is the

poet laureate of Los Angeles. Her début

collection, “Voyage of the Sable Venus,”

won the National Book Award for po-

etry in 2015.

Paul Brownfield (The Talk of the Town,

p. 24), formerly the television critic for

the Los Angeles Times, is a freelance

writer based in Brooklyn.

Emily Nussbaum (On Television, p. 86),

the magazine’s television critic, won a

Pulitzer Prize in 2016. She is the au-

thor of “I Like to Watch: Arguing My

Way Through the TV Revolution.”

John Lahr (“The Director’s Cut,” p. 52)

has written for The New Yorker since

1991. His book “Tennessee Williams:
      Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh” won the
      2014 National Book Critics Circle
      Award for biography.

Sarah Lazarus (Shouts & Murmurs,

p. 35) is a writer and a comedian based

in Los Angeles.

Joseph O’Neill (Fiction, p. 62) is the

author of, most recently, the story col-

lection “Good Trouble.”

Bruce McCall (Cover), an artist and a

satirical writer, has contributed covers

and humor pieces to the magazine since

1980. This is his seventy-seventh cover.

Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Poem, p. 46)

will publish a new poetry collection,

“Seeing the Body,” in 2020.

LETTER FROM SILICON VALLEY

“Our first stop was the robots.”

Anna Wiener reports on her visit to

an Amazon fulfillment center.

PHOTO BOOTH

Shirley Baker’s street scenes captured

“the great madness and oddness of

this life,” Lou Stoppard writes.

LEFT: EIKO OJALA; RIGHT: SHIRLEY BAKER/ COURTESY THE ESTATE OF SHIRLEY BAKER AND MACK

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