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CONTRIBUTORS
Jiayang Fan (“Represent!,” p. 42) is a
staff writer. Her reporting has appeared
in The New Yorker since 2010.
Brooke Jarvis (“American Sphinx,” p. 26)
is a contributing writer for the Times
Magazine and The California Sunday
Magazine.
Jonathan Blitzer (“So Goes the Nation,”
p. 18) became a staff writer in 2017. He
covers immigration for newyorker.com.
Kwame Dawes (Poem, p. 36) is a 2019
Windham-Campbell Prize winner
and a professor of English at the Uni-
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln. His new
poetry collection, “Nebraska,” will be
out in October.
Janet Malcolm (Books, p. 54) is a long-
time staff writer. Her latest book is
“Nobody’s Looking at You,” a collec-
tion of essays.
Thomas McGuane (Fiction, p. 50) began
contributing fiction to the magazine in
- His latest book is “Cloudbursts:
Collected and New Stories.”
Ben Taub (“Ideas in the Sky,” p. 32) is a
staff writer. His 2018 reporting on Iraq
won a National Magazine Award and
a George Polk Award.
Joana Avillez (Sketchpad, p. 17) is an
illustrator. Her most recent book,
“D C-T!,” with Molly Young, was pub-
lished last year.
J. J. Sempé (Cover) is a longtime con-
tributor of art work to the magazine.
His many books include “C’est la Vie!”
Jenny Slate (Shouts & Murmurs, p. 25)
is an actor and a comedian. Her book
“Little Weirds” will be published in
November.
Eliza Griswold (Poem, p. 47) won the
2019 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfic-
tion for “Amity and Prosperity: One
Family and the Fracturing of Amer-
ica.” Her poetry collection “If Men,
Then” will come out in 2020.
Jill Lepore (Books, p. 60) teaches his-
tory at Harvard. Her books include
“This America” and “These Truths.”
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