Dan Kois is a senior editor in the culture department at Slate and a contributing writer to the New York Times magazine.

Parul Sehgal is a staff editor at The New York Times Book Review. Previously, she was the books editor at NPR and a senior editor at Publishers Weekly. She is a recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle.

Kathryn Schulz is the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error and the book critic for New York magazine. She has also written for the New York Times magazine, Rolling Stone, TIME, Foreign Policy, and The Nation. In 2012, she won the NBCC award for excellence in reviewing.

Sasha Weiss is the literary editor of Newyorker.com.

Michelle Dean is a journalist and critic whose work has appeared at the New Yorker's Page Turner, Slate, the LA Review of Books, and the Barnes & Noble Review.