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C. P. Chandrasekhar

C. P. Chandrasekhar is currently Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published widely in academic journals and is the co-author of Crisis as Conquest: Learning from East Asia (Orient Longman), The Market that Failed: Neo-Liberal Economic Reforms in India (Leftword Books) and Promoting ICT for Human Development: India (Elsevier). He is a regular columnist for Frontline (titled Economic Perspectives), Business Line (titled Macroscan) and the Web site of The Hindu (titled Economy Watch).

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Samuel Miller McDonald

Samuel Miller McDonald is a geographer and author of the forthcoming book Progress. His writing has appeared in Current Affairs, The New Republic, and The Guardian, among other publications.

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Bennet Bergman

Bennet Bergman is a New York–based writer and founding editor of Changes, a nonprofit press dedicated to publishing poetry. He was born in Illinois and earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Threepenny Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, and other journals.

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Hua Xi

Hua Xi is a poet and artist. She won the 2019 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest and was previously a finalist for the Norman Mailer Award in Poetry. She has been published in Narrative, Boulevard, and Electric Lit.

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Erika Howsare

Erika Howsare is a poet and writer whose work has appeared in Fence, Verse, Longreads, and many other outlets. She’s published two books of poetry and is at work on a nonfiction book about the relationship between people and deer, to be published by Catapult Books in 2024.

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Kyle Harper

Kyle Harper is Professor of Classics and Letters and Provost Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma. He is a historian of the ancient world whose work has spanned economic, environmental, and social history. His latest book is Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History.

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Alicia Mireles Christoff

Alicia Mireles Christoff is a Mexican American writer and Associate Professor of English at Amherst College. She is author of Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis, and her poems and essays have appeared in the Yale Review, Peach Mag, the Common, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, and elsewhere.

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Achal Prabhala

Achal Prabhala is a writer based in Bangalore, India. His writing has appeared in Chimurenga and Bidoun.

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Binyavanga Wainaina

Binyavanga Wainaina (1971–2019) won the Caine Prize for African Writing and was author of One Day I Will Write About This Place as well as the celebrated essay “How to Write About Africa.”

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Kyoko Uchida

Kyoko Uchida was born in Japan and raised there and in the United States and Canada. She is author of Elsewhere, and her poetry, prose, and translations have appeared in journals including Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, and North American Review.

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José B. González

José B. González is the author of Toys Made of Rock and When Love Was Reels and is the editor of LatinoStories.com.

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Madeline Lane-McKinley

Madeline Lane-McKinley is a writer, editor, and adjunct lecturer with a PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her book Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times will be published by Common Notions in fall 2022.

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Sophia Goodfriend

Sophia Goodfriend is Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Pembroke College and a non-resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative. Her writing has also appeared in +972 Magazine, Foreign Policy, and the London Review of Books.

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Wendy Johnson

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Danielle Sered

Danielle Sered is founding Executive Director of Common Justice, based in Brooklyn, New York.

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Amanda Alexander

Amanda Alexander is founding Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center.

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Pierre Bourdieu

Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and public intellectual. He appeared in our Winter 1984 issue.

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Stephen Schmidt

Stephen Schmidt is a free-lance writer and editor. He operated a French catering service in Cambridge before his recent move to New York.

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Julia Child

Julia Child was an American cooking teacher, author, and television personality. She appeared in Boston Review’s first issue from 1975.

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Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, and author of many books, including Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel.

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Erika Howsare

Erika Howsare is a poet and writer whose work has appeared in Fence, Verse, Longreads, and many other outlets. She’s published two books of poetry and is at work on a nonfiction book about the relationship between people and deer, to be published by Catapult Books in 2024.

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Emily Kern

Emily M. Kern is Assistant Professor of History of Science and the College at the University of Chicago. Her current book project, The Cradle of Humanity: Science and the Making of African Origins, explores how the African continent became the preeminent site for human evolutionary research.

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Abby Minor

Abby Minor is a writer in central Pennsylvania. Awarded Bitch Media’s 2018 Writing Fellowship in Sexual Politics, she serves on the Board of Abortion Conversation Projects and is the founding director of Ridgelines Language Arts.

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Michael Reagan

Michael Reagan is a historian and activist living in Seattle, Washington. He is the author of Intersectional Class Struggle: Theory and Practice.