Global Dialogues

Jennifer Szalai has been the nonfiction critic for the New York Times since 2018. She was previously an editor at the New York Times Book Review, assigning reviews of both fiction and nonfiction. She has written for various publications, including Harper’s Magazine, the Economist, and the London Review of Books. Before joining the New York Times in 2012, she was a senior editor at Harper’s, where she was in charge of the reviews section. She has degrees from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics.