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