Josh Levin - Writer for Slate Magazine

Culture

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:37:00 -0500

The Hardest-Working Hand in Show Business: How ventriloquist Jeff Dunham became the country’s most popular stand-up comedian. Slate, Feb. 18, 2009

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

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

Sports

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:33:00 -0500

The Other Blind Sides: The Michael Oher story may have been amazing, but was it unique? Slate, Oct. 14, 2010

Bill Simmons: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut: The Sports Guy’s The Book of Basketball is a crude, fantastic mess. Slate, Nov. 11, 2009

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

The R. Kelly Trial

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:09:00 -0500

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

New Orleans

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:07:00 -0500

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