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Sarah Stillman (“The Damage,” p. 32),
a staff writer, won the 2019 National
Magazine Award for Public Interest.
This story was produced in collabo-
ration with the Columbia Graduate
School of Journalism’s Global Migra-
tion Project.
Kelefa Sanneh (“The Color of Money,”
p. 26) has been a staff writer since 2008.
Joyce Carol Oates (Poem, p. 44) received
the 2020 Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca.
Her new poetry collection is “American
Melancholy.”
Paul Rogers (Sketchbook, p. 49), an illus-
trator, teaches at ArtCenter College of
Design, in Pasadena, California.
Alexandra Schwartz (On Television,
p. 74) joined the magazine in 2013 and
has been a staff writer since 2016.
Christoph Niemann (Cover) is the au-
thor of several books, including, most
recently, “Pianoforte,” about the strug-
gle and the joy of learning to play the
piano as an adult.
David Owen (“Promised Land,” p. 42)
has been a staff writer since 1991. His
latest book is “Volume Control.”
Jill Lepore (Books, p. 55), a professor of
history at Harvard, has written fourteen
books, including “If Then,” which came
out in 2020.
Joshua Yaffa (“Five-Month Plan,” p. 18),
a Moscow correspondent for the mag-
azine, has published “Between Two
Fires.”
Amanda Petrusich (Pop Music, p. 72) is
a staff writer and the author of “Do
Not Sell at Any Price.”
Ben Okri (Fiction, p. 52) won the 1991
Booker Prize for “The Famished Road.”
His most recent books include the
novel “The Freedom Artist,” which
came out in 2020, and the short-story
collection “Prayer for the Living,”
which is out this month.
Charles Simic (Poem, p. 37), a Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet, published “Come
Closer and Listen” in 2019.
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