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Julian Lucas (“Structure and Flow,”
p. 40) is a writer and a critic based in
Brooklyn.
Rachel Kushner (“The Hard Crowd,”
p. 26), the author of the novels “Telex
from Cuba,” “The Flamethrowers,”
and “The Mars Room,” will publish
“The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020”
in April.
Graham Swift (Fiction, p. 50) received
the 1996 Booker Prize for “Last Orders.”
His most recent book is the novel “Here
We Are.”
Jean Valentine (Poem, p. 46), who died
in December, began contributing po-
etry to The New Yorker in 1969. Her
latest book, “Shirt in Heaven,” was
published in 2015.
Edel Rodriguez (Cover) is a painter
and an illustrator. His work has been
featured in exhibitions and in publi-
cations around the world.
Margaret Talbot (Books, p. 56) became
a staff writer for the magazine in 2004.
Elizabeth Kolbert (“Life Hacks,” p. 32),
a staff writer since 1999, won the 2015
Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for “The
Sixth Extinction.” Her new book,
“Under a White Sky: The Nature of
the Future,” will be out in February.
Nick Paumgarten (“Bad Influencer,”
p. 18) is a staff writer. He began con-
tributing to the magazine in 2000.
Jane Mayer (The Talk of the Town, p. 13),
The New Yorker’s chief Washington
correspondent, is the author of “Dark
Money.”
Francisco Cantú (Books, p. 61) is a writer
and a translator. He has published
“The Line Becomes a River.”
Jill Lepore (A Critic at Large, p. 65) is
a professor of history at Harvard. Her
fourteenth book, “If Then,” came out
in September.
Tyree Daye (Poem, p. 55), the author of,
most recently, the poetry collection
“Cardinal,” teaches at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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