Aaron Bady is a writer in Oakland.

Aaron Bady

Boris Dralyuk is the Editor-in-Chief of the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a literary translator and holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. He has also taught at&nbsp;the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His work has&nbsp;appeared in the&nbsp;Times Literary Supplement,&nbsp;The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books,&nbsp;London Review of Books, The Paris Review,&nbsp;The Guardian,&nbsp;Granta,&nbsp;World Literature Today,&nbsp;The Yale Review, The Hopkins Review,&nbsp;New England Review,&nbsp;Harvard Review,&nbsp;Jewish Quarterly,&nbsp;and other journals. He is the author of&nbsp;Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934&nbsp;(Brill, 2012) and translator of several volumes from Russian and Polish, including Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales (Columbia University Press, 2018), Isaac Babel’s&nbsp;Red Cavalry&nbsp;(Pushkin Press, 2015) and&nbsp;Odessa Stories&nbsp;(Pushkin Press, 2016), Maxim Osipov’s Rock, Paper, Scissors, and&nbsp;Other Stories (NYRB Classics, 2019, with Alex Fleming and Anne Marie Jackson), and Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees (MacLehose Press, 2020). He is also the editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution&nbsp;(Pushkin Press, 2016), and co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski, of&nbsp;The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry&nbsp;(Penguin Classics, 2015). His website is&nbsp;<a href="http://bdralyuk.wordpress.com/">bdralyuk.wordpress.com</a>. On Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/borisdralyuk">@BorisDralyuk</a>. (Photograph by Jennifer Croft.)

Boris Dralyuk

Jane Hu is a critic who lives in Los Angeles.

Jane Hu

Christian Lorentzen&nbsp;is an essayist and critic based in Brooklyn. He is a regular contributor to the&nbsp;London Review of Books, Bookforum, and&nbsp;Harper’s&nbsp;Magazine&nbsp;and a contributing writer for&nbsp;Air Mail.

Christian Lorentzen

Julian Lucas&nbsp;is a writer and critic based in Brooklyn. He is an associate editor at&nbsp;Cabinet&nbsp;and a contributing editor at&nbsp;The Ballot.&nbsp;His work has appeared in&nbsp;The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Vanity Fair&nbsp;and&nbsp;The New York Times Book Review.&nbsp;

Julian Lucas

<h4>Ismail Muhammad is a story editor at The New York Times Magazine. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Bookforum, and other venues. He lives in Oakland.</h4>

Ismail Muhammad

Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “Under Review”

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Literary Criticism

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Music

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Cultural Studies

Ismail Muhammad is a story editor at The New York Times Magazine. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Bookforum, and other venues. He lives in Oakland.

Ismail Muhammad

Articles

Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “Under Review”

From Outer Space, or Something: Fantasizing Capital in Contemporary Hip-Hop