Who we are

Virginia Heffernan is a journalist, critic and author of MAGIC AND LOSS: The Internet as Art (Simon & Schuster, 2016). She is the host of This Is Critical on Stitcher, a contributing editor at WIRED, and a frequent contributor to the LA Times, the Atlantic, the New York Times, etc.

Stephen Metcalf is a critic, essayist, podcaster, and screenwriter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Slate, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He is the co-creator and host of the Slate Culture Gabfest, a podcast. He is writing a book about the 1980s and a screenplay for Amazon Studios.