The New York Times Magazine - 20.10.2019

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Contributors

Najeebah Al-Ghadban is a designer and

collage artist from Kuwait. She is a staff

designer for NYT Mag Labs and regularly

contributes illustrations to the magazine.

Joshua Hammer is the author of ‘‘The Bad-Ass

Librarians of Timbuktu’’ and the forthcoming

‘‘The Falcon Thief.’’ He last wrote for the magazine

about a billion-dollar bank heist.

Philip Montgomery is a photographer who

won the 2018 National Magazine Award

for feature photography. He photographed

the year’s best actors for the 2018 Great

Performers Issue.

Hannah Reyes Morales is a Filipina

photographer based in Manila. She is the

recipient of the 2019 Visionary Award

from the Tim Hetherington Trust. This is

her first assignment for the magazine.

Alex W. Palmer is a writer based in Washington.

He last wrote for the magazine about the case

of Hong Kong’s missing booksellers.

Jody Rosen is a contributing writer for the

magazine and the author of a forthcoming book

‘‘Two Wheels Good.’’ He last wrote for the

magazine about the 2008 fire at Universal.

Photographed by Kathy Ryan at Th e New York Times
on Oct. 4, 2019, at 9:27 a.m.

Christopher Cox is a visiting scholar at the Arthur

L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University

and is working on a book about deadlines. This

week he writes about the empire built by the chef

Jean-Georges Vongerichten, who has opened four

restaurants since May, bringing his worldwide total

to 38. ‘‘Considering everything that can go wrong

at an opening, I could see why a chef wouldn’t want

a journalist hanging around to witness a potential

disaster,’’ Cox says. ‘‘Vongerichten was eager to

have me in the kitchen from the start, which was

either bluster or confidence — and I wanted to

find out which.’’

‘‘Th e China Connection,’’

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‘‘Th e Journalist and

the Autocrat,’’

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‘‘Th e Journalist and

the Autocrat,’’

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‘‘Th e China Connection,’’

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Screenland,

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‘‘Th e Jean-Georges Recipe,’’

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‘‘Th e Jean-Georges Recipe,’’

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Joshua Hammer

Najeebah
Al-Ghadban

Philip Montgomery

Hannah Reyes
Morales

Alex W. Palmer

Jody Rosen

Christopher Cox

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