Madeleine Wulfahrt

Writer and Editor

Madeleine Wulfahrt (née Pulman-Jones) is a writer and member of The New Yorker’s editorial staff. She has written on film and literature for The New Yorker, Penguin Modern Classics, MUBI Notebook, Literary Hub, The Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in publications such as PN Review, The Adroit Journal, and Still Point. She is the recipient of a Harper-Wood Creative Writing and Travel Award and a University of Warsaw Prize for Literary Translation. Originally from the UK, she spent time living in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Warsaw between 2017 and 2022. Now based in New York, she works as a Fact Checker at The New Yorker, research-editing pieces across the magazine, and bringing her first-hand cultural and linguistic knowledge to coverage of Eastern Europe.

Selected Writing

Books

Introduction to Love’s Work by Gillian Rose | Penguin Modern Classics | March 2024

Essays

‘How to Make a Movie House with John Wilson’ | The New Yorker | August 2025
‘Becoming Nearer to Oneself: On Eliza Barry Callahan’s The Hearing Test’ | Cleveland Review of Books | March 2025
‘On Writing the Hospital’ | Literary Hub | March 2025
‘A camera and a coma: on Edward Yang’s Yi Yi’ | A Rabbit’s Foot | March 2025
‘60 years later, Jean-Luc Godard’s A Woman is A Woman still feels fresh’ | A Rabbit’s Foot | February 2025
‘A Painter’s Life: Illustrations Arranged in Emotional Order’ review of Orhan Pamuk’s illustrated notebooks, Memories of Distant Mountains | The Times Literary Supplement | November 2024
‘A Real Pain Between the Temples’ | MUBI Notebook | November 2024
‘Walking in Step With “The Glass Essay”’ | Worms issue 4 | December 2021
'I'm 21 and have had chemotherapy during lockdown. I was one of the lucky ones.' | The Guardian | May 2020

Interviews

Unasked Questions: A Conversation with Mikołaj Grynberg and his English translator, Sean Gasper Bye | Jewish Book Council | January 2025

Fiction

‘Hydra’ | Still Point | February 2025

Poetry

‘Artefact’ | Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal issue 7 | December 2021
'Embassies' and 'I catch death in birth's lining' | PN Review issue 257 | February 2021
'Precarious Weather' | The Adroint Journal | August 2020

Translation

Collection of Prose Poems by Zuzanna Bartoszek (translated from the Polish) | Hela Press | forthcoming
‘February’ by Dana Sideros (translated from the Russian) | Modern Poetry in Translation issue no. 2, 2022 | July 2022