Maggie Levantovskaya is a writer, editor, and professor based in the Bay Area.
Maggie Levantovskaya
Articles
Keeping It in the Family: On Sarah Jaffe’s “Work Won’t Love You Back”
Maggie Levantovskaya works through “Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone” by Sarah Jaffe.
Embraced with One Arm, Pushed Away with the Other: On Laila Lalami’s “Conditional Citizens”
Maggie Levantovskaya considers “Conditional Citizens,” the new essay collection from Laila Lalami.
Identity Shaping on Social Media: On Jia Tolentino’s “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion”
Maggie Levantovskaya gazes into “Trick Mirror,” a new essay collection by Jia Tolentino.
Not Just Russians, Not Just Jews: On New Works by Irina Reyn, Boris Fishman, and David Bezmozgis
On “Mother Country” by Irina Reyn, “Savage Feast” by Boris Fishman, and “Immigrant City” by David Bezmozgis.
Why Me?: On Tressie McMillan Cottom’s “Thick: And Other Essays”
In “Thick,” black womanhood unites all the essays, yet Tressie McMillan Cottom is not interested in making simple generalizations from her own experience.
Anger Persists: On Rebecca Traister’s “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger”
"Good and Mad" uses several prisms for revealing the nuances of women’s anger in the second decade of the 21st century.
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