I'm a senior editor at Slate in charge of the sports and technology sections. I've also written going on 200 articles for the magazine.
My latest project is a week-long series, "How Is America Going To End?" I'm also hosting a weekly sports podcast called "Hang Up and Listen" that also features Stefan Fatsis and Mike Pesca.
Before I came to Slate I was an intern at Washington City Paper. (A bunch of my WCP stories are archived here.) I've also freelanced for the Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, and Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine.
I graduated from Brown University with degrees in computer science and history. I was born and raised in New Orleans, and I've lived in Washington, D.C. for seven years.
E-mail: josh at josh dash levin dot com
Twitter: @josh_levin
Television Outside the Box: Are you ready for 3-D TV? The Atlantic, April 2009
”AXXo You Are a God”: The secrets of BitTorrent’s top movie pirate. Slate, Nov. 11, 2008
Solitaire-y Confinement: Why we can’t stop playing a computerized card game. Slate, May 14, 2008
Meet the Charlatans: Another terrible spoof movie from the nongeniuses who brought you Date Movie and Epic Movie. Slate, Jan. 30, 2008
Other People’s Porn: Watching my neighbors watch on-demand television. Slate, June 1, 2007
The Power and Glory of the Rocky Montage: A video slideshow. Slate, Dec. 21, 2006
Dead Run: How did movie zombies get so fast? Slate, Mar. 24, 2004
Could This Offense Revolutionize Football? What to expect when the A-11 offense comes to a gridiron near you. Play, Nov. 2, 2008
Shake Me Down at the Ball Game: Modern parks make watching the national pastime a rich man’s pursuit. Sports Illustrated, June 23, 2008
Opening Soon: Rhinoceros Pines!: How to name your golf course. Play, March 2, 2008
What’s Wrong With Sports Illustrated: And how to fix it. Slate, Oct. 31, 2007
One Giant Lift for Mankind: The race for the 1,000-pound bench press. Slate, Aug. 9, 2004
Checkered Flag: Why flag football is America’s dirtiest college sport. Slate, Feb. 26, 2004
Number Crunching: Why doesn’t football have a Bill James? Slate, Dec. 19, 2003
Long Live the Little Man Defense!: How R. Kelly got off. Slate, June 13, 2008
The R. Kelly Trial: Week 2, featuring a visit to the log cabin, a call for a forensic hairstylist, and the ghost sex defense. Slate, June 3, 2008
The R. Kelly Trial: Week 1, featuring the Shaggy defense, the Little Man defense, and Sparkle. Slate, May 21, 2008
The Other Katrina Hospital Mystery: What that New York Times Magazine story missed about the Memorial Medical Center tragedy. Slate, Sept. 4, 2009
Dispatches From New Orleans: A year after Katrina, pieces on my family’s decision to stay in the city, Katrina humor, and anger in the Lower Ninth Ward. Slate, Aug. 29, 2006
Dispatches From New Orleans: Six months after Katrina, pieces on the mayoral race, my grandparents’ return to the city, and Antoinette K-Doe. Slate, April 18, 2006
Dispatches From New Orleans: A series of stories filed from the scene a week after Hurricane Katrina. The people who won’t evacuate, what the rescue workers find, what it smells like, and the holes in the house I grew up in. Slate, Sept. 8-12, 2005
Mourning My New Orleans: Our family has lived there for a century. Where will we go now? Slate, Aug. 31, 2005
