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Jon Lee Anderson (“The Palace Gates,”
p. 30), a staff writer, began contributing
to the magazine in 1998. His books
include “Che Guevara: A Revolution-
ary Life.”
Nicole Krauss (Fiction, p. 54) has writ-
ten five books, including the novel
“Forest Dark” and the story collection
“To Be a Man.”
Ed Caesar (“Seize the Night,” p. 42), a
contributing staff writer, published “The
Moth and the Mountain: A True Story
of Love, War, and Everest” in 2020.
Rima Parikh (Shouts & Murmurs, p. 23)
is a standup comedian and a writer.
Charif Shanahan (Poem, p. 49) is the
author of two poetry collections, “Into
Each Room We Enter Without Know-
ing” and “Trace Evidence,” which is
due out next year. He is an assistant
professor of English and creative writ-
ing at Northwestern University.
Naomi Fry (The Talk of the Town, p. 14)
became a staff writer in 2018.
Rivka Galchen (“Who Will Fight with
Me?,” p. 24) most recently published
the novel “Everyone Knows Your
Mother Is a Witch.”Anthony Lane (“On the Rocks,” p. 16)
has been a film critic for The New
Yorker since 1993. He is the author of
“Nobody’s Perfect,” a collection of his
writing for the magazine.Jelani Cobb (Comment, p. 11), a staff
writer, is the co-editor of “The Es-
sential Kerner Commission Report.”
He is the dean of the Columbia Jour-
nalism School.Monica Youn (Poem, p. 36) will publish
a new book of poetry, “From From,”
next year. She teaches at the Univer-
sity of California, Irvine.Mark Ulriksen (Cover), an artist and an
illustrator, has contributed more than
sixty covers to the magazine since 1994.Nikhil Krishnan (Books, p. 60) is a fel-
low in philosophy at Robinson College,
Cambridge.