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Alissa Wilkinson is a critic and journalist living in New York City. She covers film, culture, and religion. | Alissa Wilkinson is a movie critic at the New York Times . She is the author of We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine , a cultural history of American myth-making in Hollywood through the life and work of Joan Didion (Liveright, 2025) and Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women (Broadleaf, 2022). She’s currently working on her next book, about art and beauty in an anti-wonder world, which will also be published by Liveright. Before joining the Times in 2023, Alissa was a senior correspondent and critic at Vox.com , where she mostly wrote about film, TV, and culture. She’s contributed essays, features, and criticism to a wide var

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