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Alissa Wilkinson

Alissa Wilkinson

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Movie Critic, The New York Times

New York

Biography

Alissa Wilkinson is a movie critic at The New York Times. She’s the author of "Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women" (Broadleaf, 2022) and "We Tell Ourselves Stories" (Liveright, forthcoming). She is co-author, with Rob Joustra, of "How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World" (Eerdmans, 2016). Alissa's work has appeared at Bon Appetit, Eater, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, Film Comment, The Atlantic, Books & Culture, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Paste, Pacific Standard, and others. She holds an MA in humanities and social thought from New York University and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Seattle Pacific University. She lives in Brooklyn.

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theatre, movies art, religion. books, politics TV,Culture

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Total articles 2407

  • ‘The Amateur’ Review: An Unsafe World

    By Alissa Wilkinson Verified

    Apr. 16, 2025

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The New York Times

New York, New York, United States

+1 800-698-4637

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