Work Won’t Love You Back

Maggie Levantovskaya is a writer, editor, and professor based in the Bay Area.

Maggie Levantovskaya

Keeping It in the Family: On Sarah Jaffe’s “Work Won’t Love You Back”

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Conditional Citizens

Embraced with One Arm, Pushed Away with the Other: On Laila Lalami’s “Conditional Citizens”

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Trick Mirror

Identity Shaping on Social Media: On Jia Tolentino’s “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion”

Mother Country

Savage Feast

Immigrant City

<div>Sasha Senderovich is an assistant professor of Russian, Jewish, and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is working on his first book,&nbsp;How the Soviet Jew Was Made: Culture and Mobility after the Revolution.</div>

Sasha Senderovich

Not Just Russians, Not Just Jews: On New Works by Irina Reyn, Boris Fishman, and David Bezmozgis

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Thick

Why Me?: On Tressie McMillan Cottom’s “Thick: And Other Essays”

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Good and Mad

Anger Persists: On Rebecca Traister’s “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger”