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Alexandra Schwartz

Alexandra Schwartz

@Alex_Lily

Alexandra Schwartz joined The New Yorker as a member of the editorial staff in 2013 and has been a staff writer since 2016. She has written extensively about literature as both a critic and a reporter, profiling writers such as Jennifer Egan, Miriam Toews, Vivian Gornick, and Ayad Akhtar. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Schwartz, who has written frequently on France, covered the November, 2015, terror attacks in Paris. She has also written pieces about New York City’s newest neighborhood, the pitfalls of self-help, and the world’s largest coöperative grocery store. Since 2019, Schwartz has served as a theatre critic for the magazine.

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