Editor in Chief

Madeleine Schwartz lives in Paris, where she writes about the rise of the far right, urban politics and art fraud. Her work appears in The London Review of Books, The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, where she previously worked as an editor. In 2019, her article “The End of Atlanticism: Has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?” won the European Press Prize. She used the prize money to create The Ballot, a two-year online magazine about international politics. The Ballot published writers in over 40 countries, everywhere from Azerbaijan to Ukraine. This whet her appetite to publish more international reporting in a new magazine. She teaches journalism at Sciences Po.

Managing Editor

Mara Wilson oversees audience development and newsroom operations. She previously worked as an editor at The Atlantic, where she specialized in audience engagement. Her reporting has been featured in The Atlantic and Vice Magazine. She lives in Chicago.

Deputy Editor

Esther King is a journalist based in Brussels. She was a founding member of Politico’s European newsroom, where she edited features and op-eds and later led a team of journalists covering sustainability. She has reported on Europe’s response to the George Floyd protests in 2020, Belgium’s attempts to reckon with its colonial history and the crackdown on volunteers working with migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. She studied history and creative writing at Colby College in Maine and at the University of Cape Town, before attending the Columbia Publishing Course and working at a literary agency in New York. A dual citizen, she grew up in Brussels to American and German parents, and speaks fluent French and German.

Senior Editor

Hannah Rosefield is an editor and writer based in London. She was book review editor at Harvard Review and, as a freelance editor, has worked for The Guardian Long Read and The Economist’s 1843 magazine. Her writing has appeared in The New Republic, The White Review, The Point and The New Yorker online, among other publications. She holds a PhD in English from Harvard University, where she taught literature, writing and journalism.

Editors at Large

Lindsay Gellman is a writer based in New York whose work focuses on uncovering patterns of harm in the health industry, and on the ethical treatment of vulnerable patient populations. She was a recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to Germany, where she reported on predatory cancer clinics. Her investigations into unscrupulous Alzheimer’s treatments, Lyme-disease clinics and fertility-coaching practices have appeared in The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek and New York Magazine.

Linda Kinstler is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. Her first book, Come to This Court and Cry: How The Holocaust Ends, won a 2023 Whiting Award in Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize for Jewish Literature. 

Julian Lucas is a writer based in New York whose work focuses on the representation of history in literature, games, and the visual arts. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker and an editor-at-large at Cabinet. His essays and reviews have also appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s and The New York Times Book Review. He was a finalist for the 2020–2021 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

Ben Mauk is is a writer and filmmaker. His writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Harper’s, among other publications. He is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist and a two-time National Magazine Award finalist. He lives in Berlin, Germany, and Cleveland, Ohio, where he teaches at Case Western Reserve University.

Design Director

Lucy Andersen is a Brooklyn-based designer. She specializes in brand identities, websites, illustration, and book and editorial design.

Operations Manager

Carleen Coulter is a Berlin-based photographer, curator, and arts administrator. She previously worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was director of KN: Raum für Kunst in Kontext. Her photography appears in Granta, The Paris Review Daily, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. 

Copy Editor

Brian Ransom has edited fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and comics for The Paris Review, New York Review Comics, and Astra Magazine, among others. His own nonfiction has appeared on The Paris Review Daily and in T: The New York Times Style Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Fact Checker

Sujay Kumar is a journalist in Chicago. He moderates reader comments for The New York Times. He also fact-checks for Columbia Global Reports and The Drift. He has worked as editor in chief of the Chicago Reader and as a culture editor at The Daily Beast.

Interns 

Lucas Frisancho is a Peruvian American writer from Chicago. He has served as a reporting intern at Next City, a solutions journal covering urban inequality. Lucas has also written for The Chicago Maroon, the student-run newspaper at the University of Chicago, where he currently studies Political Science and Cinema & Media Studies.

Sasha Maskoff is an aspiring writer and editor from Connecticut. She is a rising senior at the University of Chicago, where she studies Political Science and serves on the editorial board of Memoryhouse, a literary magazine of creative nonfiction. 

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Board

Carroll Bogert
Marc DaCosta
Jessica Henderson
Madeleine Schwartz

Advisors

Joergen Ejboel
Ivan Krastev
Peter Pomerantsev
Christopher D. Shea
Alice Spawls
Richard Tofel
Diane Wachtell

Founding Donor

Beverly Rogers

Support

Open Society Foundations
The de Groot Foundation
The Miami Foundation (through NewsMatch)

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