Julian Lucas

SPRING 2026. Julian Lucas is a staff writer at The New Yorker, an editor at The Dial, and an editor-at-large at Cabinet. His writing focuses on literature and the arts, and particularly the representation of history across media. He was a contributing writer at the The New York Times Book Review, and his work has appeared in Harper’s, Vanity Fair, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications.

He is working on a book, “Death Drive,” about death and the digital, from the representation of mortality in video games to the rise of “grief tech” and the archival challenges posed by life online. It will combine criticism, reportage, and memoir.