The Editors
LOU BAHET
Founder & Managing Editor
Lou Bahet is a Fellow of The Writers’ Institute and an incoming Literary Fellow-in-Residence at the Bogliasco Center Summer Session. She’s at work on a novel, is on Substack at Falcon Lair, and loves opening her art deco home for readings, plays, and the like.
ROSS BARKAN
Founder & Editor
Ross Barkan’s new novel, Glass Century, will be published in May. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, a columnist for New York Magazine, and he writes the Substack newsletter Political Currents.
SAM KAHN
Founder & Editor
Sam Kahn writes the Substack Castalia. As a documentary producer he has had work on Netflix, Showtime, A&E, Paramount+, etc. He is an editor with Persuasion and has written for The Los Angeles Review of Books, UnHerd, AGNI, The Awl, Salmagundi, etc.
DAVID ROBERTS
Founder & Senior Advisor
David Roberts had a forty-year career on Wall Street and now writes the Substack newsletter Sparks from Culture where he writes personal essays focused on wealth, class, and capitalism.
DJANGO ELLENHORN
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Django Ellenhorn is a Fellow at The Writers’ Institute and a graduate of the University of Florida’s fiction MFA program, where he worked with Uwem Akpan, Camille Bordas, Jill Ciment, and David Leavitt. He is at work on a novel.
JULIUS TARANTO
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Julius Taranto is the author of How I Won a Nobel Prize.
Editorial Board
ELEANOR ANSTRUTHER
Eleanor Anstruther is the author of A Perfect Explanation, A Memoir in 65 Postcards & The Recovery Diaries, and In Judgment of Others. She writes on Substack at The Literary Obsessive.
WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ
William Deresiewicz is an essayist and critic. He is the author of five books including Excellent Sheep, The Death of the Artist, and The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society.
ANNE KADET
Anne Kadet is the creator of CAFÉ ANNE, a weekly newsletter devoted to all things innovative and delightful, with a NYC focus. She was previously the NYC business and trends columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
PETRA KHASHOGGI
Petra Khashoggi is a British-American writer based in NYC. She is a former fashion model, art dealer, freelance journalist, and award-winning filmmaker.
JUSTIN SMITH-RUIU
Justin Smith-Ruiu is a professor of history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Cité. His most recent book is The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is and his next book is On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of External Reality. He writes on Substack at The Hinternet.