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Masha Gessen (“The Memorial,” p. 26),
a staff writer since 2012, is the author
of “Surviving Autocracy.”

Victoria Lomasko (Comic Strip, p. 36)
is a Russian graphic artist. Her latest
book is “Other Russias.”

Sam Knight (“London Calling,” p. 22) is
a staff writer based in London. His first
book, “The Premonitions Bureau: A
True Account of Death Foretold,” is
due out in May.

Sheila Heti (Fiction, p. 48) is the au-
thor of, most recently, the novel “Pure
Colour.”

Louis Menand (Books, p. 63), a staff
writer, is a scholar-in-residence at New
York University School of Law. He
published “The Free World: Art and
Thought in the Cold War” in 2021.

Ellen Bass (Poem, p. 51) is a chancellor
of the Academy of American Poets
and teaches in the M.F.A. program at
Pacific University. Her latest collection
is “Indigo.”

Tad Friend (“Men of Letters,” p. 40)

became a staff writer in 1998. His mem-

oir about his search for his father, “In

the Early Times: A Life Reframed,”

will be out in May.

Elizabeth Kolbert (“Testing the Waters,”

p. 16) has been a staff writer since 1999.

Her most recent book is “Under a

White Sky: The Nature of the Future.”

Joe Sacco (Comic Strip, p. 36), a car-

toonist and a journalist, is the author

of “Paying the Land.”

Victoria Chang (Poem, p. 32) has pub-

lished numerous books, including

“Dear Memory” and “Obit.” Her new

poetry collection, “The Trees Witness

Everything,” will come out later this

month.

Alex Ross (Musical Events, p. 66) is the

magazine’s music critic. His latest book

is “Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the

Shadow of Music.”

Nicole Rif kin (Cover), a cartoonist and

an illustrator, is based in Brooklyn.