
Cunningham previously served as a staff assistant at the Obama White House. His writing on books, art, and culture has appeared in the Times Magazine, the Times Book Review, Vulture, the Awl, The Fader, and McSweeney’s. In 2020, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for his profile of the comedian Tracy Morgan. Since 2019, he has served as a theatre critic for the magazine. Vinson Cunningham joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2016. Samantha Irby, an essayist and a comedian, is the author of several books, including “ Quietly Hostile.” The comedy writer Samantha Irby talks humor with Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz, the co-hosts of The New Yorker’s new culture podcast, “Critics at Large.”

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In 2003, he was a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Before that, he spent thirteen years at the Times, mostly as an investigative reporter and editor. He joined The New Yorker in 2016 as an investigations editor. He writes regularly on politics, media, and religion, and is at work on a book about the history of Chinese exclusion in America. Michael Luo is the editor of and oversees the magazine’s online editorial operation, which publishes a mixture of reporting, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, and humor. In 2020, Osnos published “ Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now.” His most recent book is “ Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury.” He is a CNN contributor and a co-host of “The Political Scene” podcast, from The New Yorker. His first book, “ Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China,” won the 2014 National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His coverage ranges from politics and foreign affairs to white-collar crime and espionage. Her books include “ The Name of War,” which won a Bancroft Prize “ New York Burning,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for history “ Book of Ages,” a finalist for the National Book Award “ The Secret History of Wonder Woman” the best-seller “ These Truths: A History of the United States” the audiobook “ Who Killed Truth?” and, most recently, “ The Deadline: Essays.” She is the host of the BBC Radio 4 program “Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket.” Lepore is Harvard University’s David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History.Įvan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. Jill Lepore, a staff writer, has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2005. He is the dean of the Columbia Journalism School. His most recent book is “ The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress.” He won the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, for his columns on race, the police, and injustice. He writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. Jelani Cobb has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2012, and became a staff writer in 2015. The staff writers Jelani Cobb, Jill Lepore, and Evan Osnos discuss the state of American democracy with Michael Luo. In 2016, Remnick was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. During his tenure, The New Yorker has won more than fifty National Magazine Awards and six Pulitzer Prizes.

He is the author of seven books, including “ King of the World,” “ Resurrection,” and “ Lenin’s Tomb,” for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism. He joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1992, after ten years with the Washington Post, where he was a Moscow correspondent. Louis-Dreyfus launched her new podcast, “Wiser than Me,” earlier this year.ĭavid Remnick was named the editor of The New Yorker in 1998. Her many awards and honors include eleven Emmys, nine Screen Actors Guild Awards, a National Medal of Arts, a Golden Globe, a People’s Choice Award, and the Mark Twain Prize. Julia Louis-Dreyfus has earned worldwide acclaim for her roles in the television shows “Saturday Night Live,” “Seinfeld,” “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” and “Veep,” for which she also served as an executive producer, and has starred in films including “You Hurt My Feelings,” “You People,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Enough Said,” and “Tuesday,” among others.
