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CONTRIBUTORS
Connie Bruck (“Devil ’s Advocate,” p. 32)
has been a staff writer since 1989. She
has published three books, including
“The Predators’ Ball.”
Ruth Franklin (“Past Master,” p. 20)
is the author of “Shirley Jackson: A
Rather Haunted Life,” which won the
National Book Critics Circle Award
for biography in 2016.
Chris Ware (Comic Strip, p. 48), an
artist and a writer, will publish the
graphic novel “Rusty Brown, Part I” in
late September.
Brooke Jarvis (Books, p. 69) is a contrib-
uting writer for the Times Magazine
and The California Sunday Magazine.
Ocean Vuong (Poem, p. 61) has pub-
lished the novel “On Earth We’re Briefly
Gorgeous” and the poetry collection
“Night Sky with Exit Wounds,” which
won the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize.
Tyler Foggatt (The Talk of the Town,
p. 16) is an editor of the Talk of the
Town section.
John Lanchester (“The Invention of
Money,” p. 28) has written for the mag-
azine since 1995. He is a contributing
editor at the London Review of Books.
Elizabeth Strout (Fiction, p. 56) is the
author of seven novels, including “Olive
Kitteridge,” which won the Pulitzer
Prize. “Olive, Again” will be published
in October.
Anthony Lane (The Current Cinema,
p. 76), a film critic for the magazine since
1993, published his New Yorker writings
in the collection “Nobody’s Perfect.”
Anna Scotti (Poem, p. 38) is a writer
and a teacher. Her novella “Big and
Bad” is forthcoming in 2020.
Elizabeth Kolbert (Books, p. 65) has
been a staff writer since 1999. She is
the author of “The Sixth Extinction:
An Unnatural History,” which won the
Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 2015.
Olimpia Zagnoli (Cover) is an artist
based in Milan. This is her second cover
for The New Yorker.
POSTSCRIPT
Susan McKay writes about the
remarkable life and tragic death of the
journalist and activist Lyra McKee.
NEW YORKER RADIOHOUR
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episode, New Yorker writers share
their favorite books to beat the heat.
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