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”

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

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

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

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.