Soraya Nadia McDonald is the award-winning cultural critic for The Undefeated, ESPN’s premier platform covering race, sports, and culture. She writes about film, television, and the arts. She is the 2020 winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism, a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and the runner-up for the 2019 Vernon Jarrett Medal for outstanding reporting on black life. Soraya is a contributing editor for Film Comment and has contributed criticism to Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Her essay “‘Believe Me’ Means Believing That Black Women Are People” was published in the 2020 anthology Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World.
Soraya Nadia McDonald is the award-winning cultural critic for The Undefeated, ESPN’s premier platform covering race, sports, and culture. She writes about film, television, and the arts. She is the 2020 winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism, a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and the runner-up for the 2019 Vernon Jarrett Medal for outstanding reporting on black life. Soraya is a contributing editor for Film Comment and has contributed criticism to Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Her essay “‘Believe Me’ Means Believing That Black Women Are People” was published in the 2020 anthology Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World.
Vox's Book Club pick for November is Trust Exercise by Susan Choi.
Susan Choi is the author of the novels Trust Exercise, My Education, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and The Foreign Student. In 2019, Trust Exercise won the National Book Award for fiction. Her work has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and winner of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award and the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. With David Remnick, she co-edited Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn.