Ariel Levy

The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale

Ariel Levy on the popularity of the ancient Amazonian hallucinogenic brew in Brooklyn and Silicon Valley.

The Price of a Life

Ariel Levy writes on wrongfully convicted inmates who have been proved innocent, and asks how the state should decide how much to compensate the exonerated.

The Perfect Wife

Ariel Levy writes about Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, two lesbians whose marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage.

Thanksgiving in Mongolia

Ariel Levy writes about her pregnancy, her journey to Mongolia, and a personal tragedy.

Trial by Twitter

Ariel Levy on the Steubenville rape case, social media’s role in the investigation, and the online vigilantes who set out to shame the accused.

Living-Room Leopards

Ariel Levy on how a group of breeders set out to undomesticate the cat.

Lift And Separate

From 2009: Ariel Levy on what we get wrong about the feminist revolution in retrospect—and the political consequences we face now.

Lesbian Nation

Ariel Levy on a feminist movement during the nineteen-seventies in which lesbians set out to travel the country, and to form separatist communities.

Either/Or

Ariel Levy on gender testing in sports and the complicated case of Caster Semenya, the champion runner from South Africa.