Baffler Contributors
A list of people who have written for our print and web editions.
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@katewagner.bsky.social
architecture critic @thenation.com, creator of https://late-review.com, derailleur.net, mcmansionhell.com. Nicht bringst du Unheil dahin, wo Unheil im Hause wohnt. she/her
@kailanthropy.bsky.social
Research and writing fellow at the African American Policy Forum. Yogi, plant whisperer, bookworm. Bylines in Talking Points Memo, POLITICO, The Baffler, etc.
@patrickcsisson.bsky.social
Writer. Trends, tech, economics & policy shaping cities. Bylines: New York Times, Bloomberg CityLab, MIT Tech Review, Bisnow, Fast Company. patsisson at gmail dot com.
@mfriedrichnyc.bsky.social
middle-aged sober punk writing about culture and cities https://linktr.ee/mfriedrichnyc
@cjbossoboston.bsky.social
Professor of public policy and politics. Farm Bill and SNAP geek. New book: Why SNAP Works: A Political History -- and Defense of -- the Food Stamp Program (Univ. California Press). Cooking is therapy. Wine is food, no matter what my doctor says.
@timschwab.bsky.social
Journalists and author of "The Bill Gates Problem," now translated/sold on five continents. Please subscribe to my newsletter on Substack: https://timschwab.substack.com
@cetracey.bsky.social
escritora aridoamericana / writing a queer book about salt lakes for WW Norton / cetracey.com
@tanvi.bsky.social
writer +/ journo covering migration, cities, justice etc. words in The Nation, Politico Mag, The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic, etc. teaching @ CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism. tanvim.05 on signal. Tanvim27 on insta.
@joshuacraze.bsky.social
Writer | Bylines: @nplusonemag @nybooks @NewLeftReview @AJEnglish etc. | Fellow @typeinvestigate | Writing a book for @FitzcarraldoEds
@tamigraph.bsky.social
Climate/technology/labor/death researcher in Oakland. AI hater @datasociety.bsky.social I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ Views mine www.tamarakneese.com
@austinmccoy.bsky.social
Historian, Old School Rap Specialist. Writing book on history of the Left in Midwest and another one about De La Soul. https://austincmccoy.com/ https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
@jenniferberkshire.bsky.social
Podcasting about education policy and politics at haveyouheardpodcast.com | new book: The Education Wars: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual www.educationwarsbook.com. Follow my work at: http://educationwars.substack.com
@thefrankiedlc.news
writing at the intersection of sports & gender / co-author of HAIL MARY: The Rise & Fall of the National Women’s Football League / they/them 🏳️⚧️🌈
@schuneke.bsky.social
Historian of Queerness, Democracy, Dictatorship • Words in LARB, TNR, Baffler • represented by Inkwell Management • 🏳️🌈
@rhiansasseen.bsky.social
Words at The Atlantic, BOMB, The Baffler, Granta, The Paris Review, etc https://www.rhiansasseen.com
@ellafoxmartens.bsky.social
I help make books at Simon & Schuster UK. Writing in The Atlantic, TLS, Baffler, Drift, etc.
@tonydomestico.bsky.social
Critic and associate professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY
@bizk.bsky.social
Critic - words in The Nation, New Statesman, New York Times, The Baffler, Le Monde Diplomatique, Times Literary Supplement & Chair of Resonance FM
@emacnair.bsky.social
Writer of fiction/non-fiction short stories–leaning into the speculative. Finished a collection with the generous support of the Canada Council. Conjunctions/PRISM/PrarieFire/The Walrus/subTerrain/The Razor/EVENT/ etc. Tree hugger. Runs on coffee, cheese.
@jessejrobertson.bsky.social
History PhD student at Harvard. https://jessejrobertson.com
@moekofujii.bsky.social
critic and essayist, I write a column on film for @orionmagazine.
@seamus-malekafzali.com
Journalist and writer. Writing about the Middle East at http://seamus-malekafzali.com and about film at http://burntnitrate.com. Email: s.malekafzali@protonmail.com
@xbennyboo.bsky.social
#freelanceflailing dancer, writer, nasty notes (zine 2022), debut novel HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS (out 7/1/25 @catapult.co), noted gym rat, she/her https://bit.ly/preorder-HotGirlswithBalls
@carablueadams.bsky.social
YOU NEVER GET IT BACK, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Work in the New Yorker and Granta. Associate professor at Temple University. Brooklyn & Beacon via Vermont.
@return2sanders.bsky.social
reader, writer, theatergoer. PhD into memory. Writing in The Baffler, Jewish Currents, Ploughshares, Hypocrite Reader, Full Stop, Majuscule, The London Magazine, newyorker.... Stage Editor for @exberlinermag. https://sandersbernstein.wordpress.com
@tmbrown.bsky.social
Writer 😓 New York Times, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, the Baffler, LARB, etc.
@richardbeck.bsky.social
Senior Writer at n+1; author of WE BELIEVE THE CHILDREN; currently writing a history of the War on Terror
@rconniff.bsky.social
Progressive journalist, Wisconsinite, editor-in-chief of @wiexaminer@bsky.social, author of MILKED: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers
@dustinillingworth.bsky.social
I write about fiction // New York Review of Books, New York Times, New Yorker, etc.
@colindaileda.bsky.social
Typing. Work in The Atlantic, The Baffler, Longreads, Mashable, etc. Pulitzer Center grantee. He/him +91 7338618484, colin.daileda@gmail.com https://colindaileda.org/about https://uncannythread.substack.com/p/rain
@ooc-noah-gervais.bsky.social
Out of context and interesting takes by Noah "4 hours long game franchise analysis" Caldwell Gervais. Link to his YT channel : https://www.youtube.com/@broadcaststsatic (I am obviously not Noah)
@blbalthaser.bsky.social
Assoc prof of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (forthcoming). He/him. 🕎🌹😷 Chicago 🐢 https://iusb.academia.edu/BenjaminBalthaser
@arielfisher.com
✍️ Writer & editor for hire. Former news editor /Film and former editor of Shudder's The Bite, contributing editor Fangoria, bylines Rue Morgue, CBC Comedy et al 💍 to @jonathanbarkan.bsky.social 👾 arielfisher.com 📨 ariel.fisher.08@gmail.com
@dalepeck.bsky.social
Writer, EIC of the Evergreen Review, teacher in the New School’s grad writing program, all-around hater of 45/47. I'm in it for the endolphin rush.
@rebeccamccarthy.bsky.social
fellow @grist.org // freelance elsewhere // interviews editor at fullstopmag.bsky.social // mccarthy.ree@gmail.com // rebeccamccarthy.net
@kpaoletta.bsky.social
Author of AMERICAN OASIS: FINDING THE FUTURE IN THE CITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST, out January 14, 2025 from Pantheon. Bylines in Harper's, CJR, The Nation, The Baffler, The New Republic, etc. KPaoletta@gmail.com
@lytagold.bsky.social
writer, editor, sometime podcaster. DANGEROUS FICTIONS—about book bans, moral panics, & more—now available everywhere: https://bookshop.org/p/books/dangerous-fictions-the-fear-of-fantasy-and-the-invention-of-reality-lyta-gold/20737332?ean=9781593767709
@andrewschenker.bsky.social
Essayist, critic. Books and baseball. Delving deep into novels that riff on the life and work of Herman Melville (book in progress) https://andrewschenker.substack.com/
@marthabayne.bsky.social
Writer, editor, dancer, souper. Various responsibilities @ University of Illinois Press, South Side Weekly, Theater Oobleck, Soup & Bread. Essays @ marthabayne.substack.com.
@britthyoung.bsky.social
writer, critical tech & disability, repped and working on a book and stuff
@annneumann.bsky.social
The Good Death (Beacon). Clips: Harper's, The Guardian, The Baffler, VQR, the NYT and elsewhere. Economic Hardship Reporting Project supported. Pulitzer Center grantee.
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@jennpelly.bsky.social
journalist, critic, diarist author of The Raincoats (2017) jennpelly.info
@edwardongwesojr.com
writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel thetechbubble.substack.com
@hannahgais.bsky.social
Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social steward. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
@maudnewton.bsky.social
Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her. https://linktr.ee/maudnewton
@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
"Antifa Nancy Drew." https://www.clippings.me/noturtlesoup17 https://www.turtlediaries.net/ https://linktr.ee/noturtlesoup17 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/undercover-maga-alt-right/
@andreagrimes.com
bitch kraken / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com 📰 newsletter: homewiththearmadillo.blog 📧 email: grimesandrea at proton dot me 🛍️ shop: andreagrimes.threadless.com
@theodoremccombs.bsky.social
Writer, climate lawyer, opera enthusiast, ballet husband-man. Clarion ‘17. Published my first book, URANIANS, last year & working on the second 🪐🏳️🌈
@sarahljaffe.bsky.social
Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
@hhnnccnnll.bsky.social
I wrote Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024). Marx/Freud/karaoke
@chrislehmann.bsky.social
DC bureau chief, The Nation. Former EIC, The Baffler and the New Republic. Powertown flaneur
@madeleinewatts.bsky.social
Writer. Novels THE INLAND SEA (2021) and ELEGY, SOUTHWEST (Feb 2025). Perpetually Australian.
@davidklion.bsky.social
Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for The Nation, contributing editor at Jewish Currents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
@jacobsilverman.com
Please preorder my next book GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY Signal: jacobsilverman.99 jacobsilverman@gmail.com www.jacobsilverman.com
@coreyatad.com
Freelance writer @ The Star, GQ, Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. coreyatad@gmail.com / www.coreyatad.com
@rickperlstein.bsky.social
"O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet..."
@jhvassallo.bsky.social
Analyst writing about American political development and comparative political economy. Always looking for paid assignments. Work: https://justinhvassallo.pressfolios.com/
@astra.bsky.social
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
@daveadenison.bsky.social
Senior editor and writer at The Baffler mag. Based in Massachusetts. Once a young reporter at The Texas Observer. New work on Texas #populism here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/who-lost-texas-denison
@dennismhogan.bsky.social
Central American and Imperial Lit | Higher Ed Section Editor @publicbooks.bsky.social | University lecturer & onetime union staffer | Go easy, step lightly, stay free. |
@gabydvj.bsky.social
policy reporter @ the verge ✨other work elsewhere ✨ writing a book about ecofascism
@emotrophywife.bsky.social
Simply excited to have thoughts. Writing in The Cut, Vogue, Bookforum, Pitchfork, Frieze, and elsewhere. Debut novel forthcoming from Saga Press. gracebyron.substack.com
@ajbwells.bsky.social
Freelance critic/essayist from Aus with bylines at Guardian, Drift, Baffler, European Review of Books, Meanjin, etc. Books editor at The Berliner mag. https://sites.google.com/view/ajbwells
@novicsara.bsky.social
Author TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR 🧏🏻 deafie | 🌈 they/she/👉🏼 |📍Philly https://linktr.ee/Novic
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her. Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring. Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
@brycecovert.bsky.social
Journalist writing about the economy. Contributing writer at @thenation.com, member of @fspnwu.bsky.social. Send tips to brycecovert@protonmail.com or on Signal: brycecovert.25 she/her
@jessmcallen.bsky.social
Staff writer & fact checker at @thebaffler.com Reporting on healthcare, especially mental health, chronic illness, and care inequalities I'm from New Zealand but I live in New York.
@thebaffler.com
Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/