J. M. Tyree is a contributing editor for New England Review, and edited NER’s film supplements on Terrence Malick and Wong Kar Wai. He teaches as an associate professor in the Cinema Program at VCUarts, and serves as editor-in-chief of Film Quarterly (University of California Press), the oldest academic film journal in the United States and a leading voice in Anglophone film criticism. Tyree is the author or coauthor of seven books, including two from the British Film Institute and Bloomsbury, BFI Film Classics: The Big Lebowski (with Ben Walters) and BFI Film Classics: Salesman. As a creative writer, Tyree has published two fiction books, Our Secret Life in the Movies (with Michael McGriff), which was selected for NPR’s Best Books feature, and The Haunted Screen, both from A Strange Object/Deep Vellum. (Read interviews about these books at NPR’s Weekend Edition, The Paris Review, and Volume One Brooklyn.) His other books are Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London (Stanford University Press), The Counterforce: Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice (Fiction Advocate) and Wonder, Horror, Mystery (with Morgan Meis, punctum books). He has twice been invited to contribute an official critic’s ballot to Sight & Sound magazine’s once-per-decade Greatest Films Poll, and he has spoken at London’s National Film Theatre, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Cleveland Cinematheque.