Jennifer Szalai is a non-fiction book critic for NYT. She first joined The Times in 2012 as a preview editor at the Book Review, and also did a short stint assigning and editing pieces for Opinion section. Previously, she was a senior editor at Harper's Magazine, where she was in charge of reviews section. Before becoming a critic at The Times in 2018, she wrote for various publications, including Slate, The New Yorker and the London Review of Books.