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Ariel Levy

Biography

Ariel Levy

Ariel Levy joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008, and received the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism in 2014 for her piece “Thanksgiving in Mongolia.” She is the author of the book FEMALE CHAUVINIST PIGS and was a contributing editor at New York for 12 years.

Ariel Levy

Books by Ariel Levy

by Ariel Levy - Memoir, Nonfiction

When Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, financially secure, and successful on her own terms. A month later, none of that was true. Levy picks you up and hurls you through the story of how she built an unconventional life and then watched it fall apart with astonishing speed. Like much of her generation, she was raised to resist traditional rules --- about work, about love, and about womanhood.