Authors

Tavia Nyong’o Tavia Nyong’o

Tavia Nyong’o, a professor of performance studies at New York University, recently returned from Nairobi.

Apr 2, 2010

Lorna Scott Fox Lorna Scott Fox

Lorna Scott Fox is a journalist and translator based in London.

Apr 2, 2010

Jack Spicer Jack Spicer

Apr 2, 2010

Moni Mohsin Moni Mohsin

Moni Mohsin is the author of the novel, The End of Innocence (Penguin).

Apr 2, 2010

Gary Phillips Gary Phillips

Gary Phillips‘s short stories have appeared, most recently, in Los Angeles Noir (Akashic) and in Full House (G.P. Putnam’s Sons). He is a member of PEN and past nationa…

Apr 2, 2010

Barbara Crossette Barbara Crossette

Barbara Crossette is The Nation’s United Nations correspondent. A former foreign correspondent for The New York Times, she is the author of several books on Asia, including So Clos…

Apr 2, 2010

Luvh Rakhe Luvh Rakhe

Luvh Rakhe lives in Los Angeles. He has written for television since 2004.

Apr 2, 2010

Marc Perelman Marc Perelman

Marc Perelman is a Paris-based journalist for the TV station France 24 and was previously the diplomatic correspondent of the Forward newspaper in New York.

Apr 2, 2010

Jessica Valenti Jessica Valenti

Jessica Valenti is the author of Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness. She has also written three other books on feminism, including The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women, which was recently made into a documentary. She is editor of the award-winning anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape and the founder of Feministing.com, which Columbia Journalism Review calls “head and shoulders above almost any writing on women’s issues in mainstream media.” Jessica was the recipient of the 2011 Hillman Journalism Prize and was called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world by The Guardian.

Apr 2, 2010

Michael Gould-Wartofsky Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Michael is an award-winning author and a MacCracken Fellow in Sociology at New York University, where he is a member of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC/UAW 2110). A native of New York City and a graduate of Harvard College, his work has appeared in The Nation, The Huffington Post, The Harvard Crimson, Jewish Currents, Monthly Review, and Poets Against the War (Nation Books, 2003). His writing has received Harvard’s James Gordon Bennett Prize and the New York Times James B. Reston Award.

Apr 2, 2010

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