4 THE NEWYORKER, MARCH 9, 2020
CONTRIBUTORS
Andrew Marantz (“#Winning,” p. 44),
a staff writer, has been contributing to
The New Yorker since 2011. He is the au-
thor of “Antisocial: Online Extremists,
Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of
the American Conversation.”
Rivka Galchen (“Complete Trash,” p. 30)
has published four books. Her latest,
the children’s novel “Rat Rule 79,” came
out last year.
Alex Ross (“Exodus,” p. 38), the maga-
zine’s music critic since 1996, will
publish his third book, “Wagnerism,”
in September.
Eileen Myles (Poem, p. 48) is the author
of, most recently, the poetry collection
“Evolution.”
Idrees Kahloon (Books, p. 75) is the U.S.
policy correspondent for The Economist.
Jill Lepore (Comment, p. 25) is a pro-
fessor of history at Harvard. In Sep-
tember, she will publish her fourteenth
book, “If Then: How the Simulmat-
ics Corporation Invented the Future.”
Vinson Cunningham (“Test Case,”
p. 56), a theatre critic for the magazine,
became a staff writer in 2016.
Anne Enright (Fiction, p. 68) is the
author of seven novels. Her latest,
“Actress,” is out this month.
Brian Stauffer (Cover), an illustrator and
animator who lives in the San Francisco
Bay Area, has won three medals from
the Society of Illustrators and one from
the Society of Publication Designers.
This is his third cover for the magazine.
Na Kim (Sketchpad, p. 27), an illustrator
based in New York, is an art director at
Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Stanley Plumly (Poem, p. 63), who died
in 2019, was the author of more than
a dozen books of poetry and nonfic-
tion. “Middle Distance,” a posthumous
collection of poems, will be published
in August.
Sheila Marikar (The Talk of the Town,
p. 27), a contributor based in Los An-
geles, is writing her first novel.
THE NEW YORKER INTERVIEW
The “Foxy Brown” actress Pam Grier
talks with Michael Schulman about
her groundbreaking career.
THEFUTURE OF DEMOCRACY
Why shouldn’t prisoners be voters?
Daniel A. Gross on how the right to
vote is more precarious than it seems.
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