The Critic and Her Publics

Moira Donegan  is writer in residence for the Clayman Institute, where she participates in the intellectual life of the Institute, hosts its artist salon series, teaches a class in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, and mentors students, while continuing her own projects and writing. Her criticism, essays, and commentary, which cover the intersection of gender, politics, and the law, have ap...

Anahid Nersessian is a literary critic and Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment , was published by Harvard University Press in 2015, and her second, The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life , by the University of Chicago Press in 2020. Her latest, Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse was released in 2022. Sh...

Hannah Goldfield is a staff writer at  The New Yorker , covering restaurants and food culture. Previously, she was a fact checker at  The New Yorker  and an editor at  T: The New York Times Style Magazine . Her writing has appeared in  New York  magazine and the  Times , among other publications. Recorded November 7, 2023 at the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan University Edited by Michele Moses Music b...

Sophie Pinkham is a writer, journalist, and critic specializing in Russian and Ukrainian literature, culture, and politics. She is the author of  Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine  (2016) and the forthcoming  The Spirit in the Trees , for which she has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar grant. A frequent contributor to the  New York Review of Books,  Pink...

Andrea Long Chu is a Pulitzer Prize–winning essayist and critic at New York magazine. Her book Females , an extended annotation of a lost play by Valerie Solanas, was published by Verso in 2019 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. Her writing has also appeared in n+1, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Bookforum, Boston Review, Chronicle of Higher...

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