Dwight Macdonald (1906–1982) was an American writer, editor, critic, and political gadfly. A prominent member of the group known as the New York Intellectuals, he served as the editor of first Partisan Review and then his own journal, Politics. He later became a staff writer for The New Yorker, Esquire’s film critic, and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Louis Menand is the Robert M. and Anne T. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and a staff writer at The New Yorker.
John Summers writes and lectures widely on American history and culture.
