mialevitin.com | Mia Levitin

  • literary journalism
  • sex & gender
  • The Future of Seduction
  • meet mia levitin
featured literary journalism

Mieko Kawakami’s ‘All the Lovers in the Night’

Read More
featured literary journalism

Elif Batuman’s ‘Either/Or’

Read More
featured literary journalism

The love of books

Read More
featured sex & gender

The sorry state of cinematic sex

Read More
  • literary journalism

    Miriam Toews’s ‘Fight Night’

    The Canadian author Miriam Toews (pronounced “Taves”) is a doyenne of the tragicomic. As Alexandra Schwartz noted in a New Yorker profile (March 18, 2019), Toews is a schputter: a Plautdietsch (Low German)…

  • literary journalism

    Body language: Bitch & Vagina Obscura

    With reproductive rights devastatingly at stake in the US, as the historic Roe vs Wade ruling on abortion looks likely to be overturned, women’s bodies remain a political battleground. Long considered…

  • literary journalism

    Louise Kennedy’s ‘Trespasses’

    Louise Kennedy’s debut novel plunges us into Northern Ireland in 1975 — one of the bloodiest years of the Troubles, despite a ceasefire. Cushla Lavery is a 24-year-old Catholic primary school…

  • literary journalism

    Catherine Prasifka’s ‘None of This Is Serious’

    There’s an Oulipian game I like to play when reviewing the work of young female Irish writers: can I avoid any reference to Sally Rooney? To my mind, it’s reductive to…

  • literary journalism

    Adrian Duncan’s ‘The Geometer Lobachevsky’

    Adrian Duncan’s new novel is his fourth book in four years (I’ll have whatever he’s having). His 2019 debut, Love Notes from a German Building Site, which won the inaugural John McGahern Book…

  • literary journalism

    Elena Ferrante’s ‘In the Margins’

    Elena Ferrante’s latest book of nonfiction offers a rare peek behind the curtain of the creative process of one of our most elusive authors. The book is comprised of four lectures:…

© 2022 mialevitin.com. All Rights Reserved.