Judith Shulevitz is an American journalist, editor and culture critic. She graduated from Yale College

Yale College

Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887. The name now refers to the undergraduate part of the university. Each undergraduate student is assigned to one of 12 residential colleges.-Residential colleges:...

 in 1986.

From 1991 to 1994, Shulevitz was the co-editor of Lingua Franca with Margaret Talbot

Margaret Talbot

-Life:She is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She has also written for The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic Monthly. She is a regular panelist on the Slate podcast "The DoubleX Gabfest."...

. She was the first culture editor of Slate

Slate (magazine)

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Shulevitz also worked as deputy editor of New York Magazine, and was a columnist for the New York Times Book Review from 2001 to 2003.
Her articles have appeared in The New Yorker

The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...

, The New Republic

The New Republic

The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

, and elsewhere.

Shulevitz is married to Nicholas Lemann

Nicholas Lemann

Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is dean and Henry R. Luce professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.Lemann is from New Orleans and he graduated from Harvard University in 1976, but has never attended a school of journalism. He is a journalist, editor, and author...

, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

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