Parul Sehgal is an American literary critic based in New York, who publishes primarily in American venues. She is a former senior editor and columnist at The New York Times Book Review, and was one of the team of book critics at The New York Times. As of December 2021, she was a staff writer at The New Yorker, a position she was first reported to have taken in July 2021. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.