THE NEW CRITIC
We are the flesh-and-blood gen z magazine. We publish longform nonfiction and conversations.
We read for the shock of experience, the labor of tradition, and the ecstasy of self. We pay $100 for writing and $25 for art.
For inquiries, email editors@thenewcritic.com.
Our essays are always online and always free. We rely on individual donors to support the magazine.
Postscript, our interview series, can be accessed with a paid subscription. The $30 annual rate costs as much as a couple paperbacks or movie tickets. Our $250 founding members are our most ardent patrons, those who wish to advance our wildest editorial ambitions.
“A publication that ought to temper any doomerism about the future of criticism”
– Jon Baskin, editor of The Point MagazineMASTHEAD
FOUNDING EDITORS
Tessa Augsberger Elan Kluger Rufus Knuppel
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Will Diana Theodore Gary Isabel Mehta Owen Yingling
ART DIRECTOR
Kit Knuppel
FOUNDERS | est. May 2025
Tessa Augsberger Milla Ben-Ezra Elan Kluger Rufus Knuppel
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