Judith Shulevitz is a critic and journalist and author of The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time (2010). Shulevitz was the editor of Lingua Franca, deputy editor of New York Magazine, and science editor of The New Republic. She has been a columnist at The New York Tines Book Review, Slate, The New Republic, and New York Magazine, and contributed articles and essays to many other publications, including The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. Her November cover essay for The Atlantic examined the social and psychological effects of voice-activated technology.
Shulevitz was born in Detroit and grew up in Puerto Rico and Miami. She graduated from Yale University. She is married to Nicholas Lemann, a professor of journalism and dean merits at the Columbia Journalism School. They have two children and live in New York City and the Catskills.
