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CONTRIBUTORS


Larissa MacFarquhar (“A House of
Their Own,” p. 36), a staff writer, is an
Emerson Fellow at New America. She
is the author of “Strangers Drowning:
Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices,
and the Urge to Help.”

Kelefa Sanneh (“The Color of Injustice,”
p. 18) is a staff writer.

Megan Fernandes (Poem, p. 21) will
publish a poetry collection, “Good
Boys,” in 2020.

Vinson Cunningham (The Theatre,
p. 68), a theatre critic for the magazine,
has been a staff writer since 2016.

Emily Nussbaum (On Television, p. 70),
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.”

Jack Handey (Shouts & Murmurs, p. 23)
lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His lat-
est humor book is “Please Stop the
Deep Thoughts.”

Jelani Cobb (“The Vote Next Time,”
p. 28) teaches in the journalism pro-
gram at Columbia University.

Cyrus Grace Dunham (“A Year With-
out a Name,” p. 24) is a writer and an
organizer living in Los Angeles. Their
first book, “A Year Without a Name,”
comes out in October.

Kara Walker (Cover) is an artist based
in Brooklyn. Her site-specific work com-
missioned for the Tate Modern’s Tur-
bine Hall will be unveiled this October.

George Saunders (Fiction, p. 50) first
contributed to the magazine in 1992.
His book “Lincoln in the Bardo” won
the Man Booker Prize in 2017.

Naomi Fry (The Talk of the Town, p. 16)
became a staff writer in 2018. She writes
about culture for newyorker.com.

Ciaran Carson (Poem, p. 44) is the au-
thor of, most recently, “From There to
Here: Selected Poems and Transla-
tions.” His new collection, “Still Life,”
is forthcoming in October.

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