Contributors Emeritus (an incomplete and ongoing list)
- Berenice Abbott
- Vince Aletti
- Harry Allen
- Hilton Als
- Lester Bangs
- Ross Barkan
- Wayne Barrett
- Bill Bastone
- Laura Bell
- Allison Benedict
- John Berger
- Paul Berman
- Nell Blaine
- Will Bourne
- Tom Breihan
- Gin Briggs
- Georgia Brown
- Susan Brownmiller
- Jon Caramanica
- Teresa Carpenter
- C. Carr
- Tom Carson
- Robert Christgau
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Alexander Cockburn
- Joe Conason
- Barry Michael Cooper
- Carol Cooper
- Gerard Cosloy
- Cynthia Cotts
- Paul Cowan
- Robert Crumb
- Stacey D'Erasmo
- Manohla Dargis
- Gene Dauber
- Erik Davis
- Thulani Davis
- Kathy Deacon
- Bilge Ebiri
- Sally Eckhoff
- Chuck Eddy
- Roy Edroso
- Jules Feiffer
- Michael Feingold
- Enrique Fernández
- Hugo Flesch
- Don Forst
- Robert I. Friedman
- Simon Frith
- Donna Gaines
- Kyle Gann
- Richard Gehr
- Nelson George
- Vernon Gibbs
- Gary Giddins
- Milton Glaser
- Thomas Goetz
- Richard Goldstein
- Michael Gonzales
- Aaron Gordon
- Vivian Gornick
- Matt Groening
- Walter Gurbo
- Pablo Gúzman
- James Hamilton
- James Hannaham
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Rob Harvilla
- Molly Haskell
- Cynthia Heimel
- Robert Hennelly
- Nat Hentoff
- Elizabeth Hess
- J. Hoberman
- Robin Holland
- Jessica Hopper
- Rick Hornung
- Karen Houppert
- Gary Indiana
- Mark Jacobson
- JAF
- Tom Johnson
- Jill Johnston
- Lisa Jones
- Deborah Jowitt
- Ivan C. Karp
- Lisa Kennedy
- Julia Kent
- Leighton Kerner
- Tom Kertes
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Danny King
- Jeff Z. Klein
- Jonathan Z. Larsen
- Talia Lavin
- James Ledbetter
- Kim Levin
- Joe Levy
- Julie Lobbia
- Stan Mack
- Norman Mailer
- Scott Malcomson
- Eileen Markey
- Robert Massa
- Fred McDarrah
- Evelyn McDonnell
- Catherine McGann
- Daisann McLane
- Don McNeill
- Jonas Mekas
- Donna Minkowitz
- Elvis Mitchell
- Stephen Mooallem
- Carman Moore
- Jarrett Murphy
- Michael Musto
- Marlene Nadle
- Robert Newman
- Jack Newfield
- Peter Noel
- Grace Paley
- Jon Pareles
- Brian Parks
- Harvey Pekar
- Mary Perot Nichols
- Sylvia Plachy
- Ron Plotkin
- Ann Powers
- Ben Ratliff
- Arlene Raven
- Carrie Rickey
- James Ridgeway
- Tom Robbins
- Tricia Romano
- Ron Rosenbaum
- Jeff Salomon
- Jerry Saltz
- Greg Sandow
- Andrew Sarris
- Leslie Savan
- Sydney Schanberg
- Alan Scherstuhl
- Peter Schjeldahl
- Mark Schoofs
- Gilbert Seldes
- Rob Sheffield
- Jean Shepherd
- Robert Sietsema
- Katherine Silberger
- Doug Simmons
- Howard Smith
- R.J. Smith
- Alisa Solomon
- Michael Sorkin
- Mark Alan Stamaty
- Ward Sutton
- David Swanson
- Greg Tate
- Amy Taubin
- Steven Thrasher
- Michael Tomasky
- Tom Tomorrow
- Touré
- Guy Trebay
- Lucian K. Truscott IV
- Niccolo Tucci
- Mim Udovitch
- Christian Viveros-Fauné
- Murray Waas
- David Foster Wallace
- Michele Wallace
- Barry Walters
- Jeff Weinstein
- Lauren Weinstein
- Eric Weisbard
- Ross Wetzsteon
- Colson Whitehead
- Ellen Willis
- James Wolcott
- Joe Wood
- Lynn Yaeger
- Stephanie Zacharek
- Lara Zarum
- Elizabeth Zimmer