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Ariel Levy

Ariel Levy, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008, received a National Magazine Award in 2014 for her essay “ Thanksgiving in Mongolia.”

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6 picks · 2009–2019

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The Price of a Life
annals of justice ·

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.

Trial by Twitter
a reporter at large ·

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.