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Ariel Levy is the author of Look at Me (2026), Lisa Yuskavage (2025), As regras não se aplicam (2018), Le regole non valgono (2018), När reglerna slutat gälla (2017).

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Look at Me

release date: Nov 10, 2026
Look at Me
A deeply entertaining and intimate memoir by one of the most acclaimed actors of our time, whose performances have reflected the changing zeitgeist of America over the past sixty years. Look at Me is both an intimate account of Dustin Hoffman’s work as an actor, collaborating with the greats of the last six decades—Mike Nichols, Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Laurence Olivier, Steve McQueen, Anne Bancroft—in era-defining films, and a profound contemplation of mortality by a person entering his nineties and looking back on a remarkable life. (Hoffman was slated to be the failure in his family...he even failed at that.) Fans will finish this book feeling that they truly know Hoffman: the way his mind works; how he prepares for a part; his experience growing up in Los Angeles as a lower middle-class Jewish kid in the 1940s, then arriving in New York City full of passion in the late fifties, only to find himself crowned the “voice of his generation” in Life magazine by the end of the sixties. In the decades since, Hoffman has shown his brilliance and breadth in some of the most iconic movies of the 20th century. In his memoir, he proves to be an ardent, entertaining, and deeply empathic storyteller…a narrator whose company you will relish.

Lisa Yuskavage

release date: Jan 01, 2025
Lisa Yuskavage
The definitive monograph on innovative American painter Lisa Yuskavage Lisa Yuskavage is one of the most acclaimed living painters. Known for her highly original approach to figurative painting, Yuskavage challenges conventional understandings of the genre. At times playful and at other times rueful, her bold, eccentric, exhibitionist, and introspective characters inhabit fantastical and vivid compositions, assuming the dual role of subject and object. Although inspired by popular culture, the artist's technique is deeply rooted in the history of painting, establishing an underlying tension between polar opposites such as high and low, sacred and profane, harmony and dissonance. Yuskavage's first proper monograph features more than 150 color images, including never-before-seen photographs of her studio, along with insightful text contributions from Barry Schwabsky, Lena Dunham, and Ariel Levy.

As regras não se aplicam

release date: May 10, 2018
As regras não se aplicam
“Um livro de honestidade arrepiante.” The Guardian “Levy conta sua própria história de tragédia e dor de uma maneira amorosa e terrivelmente divertida. Ela é a melhor das companhias.” The New York Times “Uma obra visionária.” The Independent “Ariel Levy é uma autora magnífica.” Roxane Gay, autora de Fome Ariel Levy considerava ter sido criada para romper os padrões e viver a aventura da existência em toda a sua plenitude. Em 2012, sua vida não poderia estar mais completa: ela havia se casado com o amor de sua vida, estava grávida do primeiro filho, era uma jornalista bem-sucedida e estava prestes a partir para uma exótica viagem de trabalho à Mongólia. Porém, quando ela regressa aos Estados Unidos um mês depois, repentinamente tudo isso cai por terra. A partir daí, Ariel Levy compartilha com o leitor como construiu uma vida tão exitosa mesmo fugindo de todos os estereótipos e em seguida a assistiu desmoronar com uma velocidade surpreendente. Em As regras não se aplicam, ela faz uma reflexão sincera, realista e sem juízo de valores dos erros e acertos das mulheres de sua geração, que foram criadas para resistir às regras tradicionais — sobre trabalho, amor, sexualidade e família — e sentem-se frustradas por nem sempre alcançar os níveis de perfeição que lhes são cobrados. Ao discutir esses temas, a autora reflete sobre sua bissexualidade, a opção pela fertilização in vitro com um amigo que lhe garantiria estabilidade financeira em troca de “todo o amor da paternidade, sem o trabalho associado à experiência”, o amor pela escrita que a fez abdicar de profissões mais rentáveis e a dor até então inimaginável que sentiu ao perder o filho. Neste livro profundamente humano e emocionante, a história de resistência e a narrativa corajosa de Ariel Levy compõem um retrato inesquecível das forças que nos movem, das mudanças culturais indeléveis experimentadas por nossa sociedade nos últimos anos e aquilo que, apesar de todas as transformações, permanecerá eterno.

Le regole non valgono

release date: Jan 01, 2018

När reglerna slutat gälla

release date: Sep 25, 2017
När reglerna slutat gälla
"Levy lyckas med det osannolika: att skriva en fängslande och dessutom rolig skildring av en kvinnas färd genom sorg." Vanja Hermele, Dagens Nyheter Ariel Levy är stjärnreporter på The New Yorker, bor tillsammans med sin hustru på Manhattan och lever ett liv med middagar, resor och passion för skrivandet. När hon åker på en reportageresa till Mongoliet är hon gravid i femte månaden, gift och ekonomiskt trygg. En månad senare har hon inget av det kvar. I denna smärtsamma, mörka och humoristiska memoar rannsakar Ariel Levy med drabbande uppriktighet de händelser som format henne. Hon är uppvuxen med en mamma som lärt henne att fl ickor kan spränga de gränser samhället sätter upp, men när hennes drömda liv går i kras tvingas hon ställa frågan: Är min hunger på livet fel? Och vad har vi egentligen rätt att förvänta oss av livet? Ariel Levy är en amerikansk journalist och författare. Hon är reporter på The New Yorker och belönades 2014 med National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism för det mycket uppmärksammade reportaget "Thanksgiving In Mongolia". Ariel Levy bokdebuterade 2005 med Female Chauvinist Pigs. Röster om När reglerna slutat gälla "Riktigt stark läsning. Amerikansk självbiografi som är på god väg mot min privata topp tio-lista över bästa böckerna jag läst. Precis som många andra kvinnor födda på 70-talet trodde journalisten Ariel Levy att hon skulle kunna få allt: Karriär, barn och ett häftigt sexliv. Men livet hann i kapp och hon reflekterar rasande skickligt, ömsint och ödmjukt över hur det blev. Jag gråter en skvätt när hon beskriver hur hon förlorar sin ofödde son på ett badrumsgolv i Mongoliet. Imponeras av hennes språk och gläds åt hoppfullheten hon andas." M-magasin "Skimrande och ursinnigt ... Texten stirrar smärtan i vitögat men bär också ett ljus som oväntat nog gör den till en uppriktig självhjälpsbok." Matilda Gustavsson, Dagens Nyheter "Rakt och starkt om liv och död ... Av någon anledning tänker jag på uttrycket "att slita hjärtat ur kroppen" när jag läst färdigt den här boken ... Att sorgen förändrade mörkret. Och det är där hjärtat kommer in - för på något sätt är det som om sorgen och tomheten istället för att slita ut det, liksom fäster hjärtat i kroppen, verkligen håller det på plats - alla känslor blir starkare, konturerna tydligare. Och det är det Ariel Levy lyckas skriva fram, med sin raka enkla stil, som ligger nära det långa välskrivna reportaget. Hon är där, trots allt, hos sig själv. Hon har kvar sitt hopp, hon har sin nyfikenhet." Anneli Dufva, SR Kulturnytt "En berättelse om drömmar, och drömmarnas pris ... hjärtskärande osentimentalitet" Amanda Svensson, Sydsvenskan "Med stilistisk skicklighet håller sig Levy ifrån överord och känslopjunk, berättelsen är urstark nog i sig själv. På så sätt påminner den om en annan lysande amerikansk roman som kom ut tidigare i år, Mitt namn är Lucy Barton av Elizabeth Strout, som också fångade kvinnliga erfarenheter på ett osentimentalt och allmänmänskligt sätt. När reglerna slutat gälla lämnar läsaren kvar med den kvalfyllda frågan om man verkligen kan få allt, utan att behöva offra något." Jonna Sima, Arbetet "Hennes skildring av hur livet gör sitt yttersta för att slå ned henne, och hennes vägran att bli besegrad, kommer att drabba och inspirera dig." Lena Dunham "Det är en ärlig, bitvis brutal, redogörelse för ett kvinnoliv med siktet inställt på allt som är kul i livet: sex, skrivande och självförverkligande. Levy lyckas med det osannolika: att skriva en fängslande och dessutom rolig skildring av en kvinnas färd genom sorg. Men framför allt är det ett (själv)kritiskt undersökande av de gåvor feminismen gett henne." Vanja Hermele, Dagens Nyheter "En brännande bok som ruskar fram alla djupa känslor en människa kan känna. Ariel Levy har förvandlat sorgen till kon

Gegen alle Regeln

release date: Aug 21, 2017

De regels gelden niet

release date: Jun 27, 2017
De regels gelden niet
'De regels gelden niet' is het verhaal van Ariel Levy, een vrouw die dacht dat ze de wereld aankon, en tegelijk een onvergetelijk portret van een generatie die worstelt met vrijheid als 'gift' van het feminisme. Op achtendertigjarige leeftijd ging Levy voor het tijdschrift 'The New Yorker' op reportage naar Mongolië. Ze was zwanger, getrouwd, financieel gezond - ze had, kortom, alles. Een maand later was daar niets meer van over. Ariel Levy slingert je door het verhaal van het onconventionele leven dat ze voor zichzelf smeedde - dat ze vervolgens te pletter zag slaan in een razendsnel tempo, en waarvan ze de scherven langzaam weer bij elkaar heeft geraapt.

The Rules Do Not Apply

release date: Mar 14, 2017
The Rules Do Not Apply
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This Year’s Must-Read Memoir” (W magazine) about the choices a young woman makes in her search for adventure, meaning, and love NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Vogue • Time • Esquire • Entertainment Weekly • The Guardian • Harper’s Bazaar • Library Journal • NPR All her life, Ariel Levy was told that she was too fervent, too forceful, too much. As a young woman, she decided that becoming a writer would perfectly channel her strength and desire. She would be a professional explorer—“the kind of woman who is free to do whatever she chooses.” Levy moved to Manhattan to pursue her dream, and spent years of adventure, traveling all over the world writing stories about unconventional heroines, following their fearless examples in her own life. But when she experiences unthinkable heartbreak, Levy is forced to surrender her illusion of control. In telling her story, Levy has captured a portrait of our time, of the shifting forces in American culture, of what has changed and what has remained. And of how to begin again. Praise for The Rules Do Not Apply “Unflinching and intimate, wrenching and revelatory, Ariel Levy’s powerful memoir about love, loss, and finding one’s way shimmers with truth and heart on every page.”—Cheryl Strayed “Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this profound book. Ariel Levy has taken grief and made art out of it.”—David Sedaris “Beautifully crafted . . . This book is haunting; it is smart and engaging. It was so engrossing that I read it in a day.”—The New York Times Book Review “Levy’s wise and poignant memoir is the voice of a new generation of women, full of grit, pathos, truth, and inspiration. Being in her presence is energizing and ennobling. Reading her deep little book is inspiring.”—San Francisco Book Review “Levy has the rare gift of seeing herself with fierce, unforgiving clarity. And she deploys prose to match, raw and agile. She plumbs the commotion deep within and takes the measure of her have-it-all generation.”—The Atlantic “Cheryl Strayed meets a Nora Ephron movie. You’ll laugh, ugly cry, and finish it before the weekend’s over.”—theSkimm

Sporche femmine scioviniste. Le donne e l'irresistibile ascesa della Raunch Culture

release date: Jan 01, 2015

Chicas cerdas machistas

release date: Jan 01, 2014
Chicas cerdas machistas
Examines how some women are promoting chauvinism by behaving in sexually compromising ways, in an account that evaluates how women may be contributing to misogynistic and stereotyped belief systems.

Les nouvelles salopes

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Les nouvelles salopes
Aujourd'hui, aux Etats-Unis, la culture porno a intégré les médias, la mode, la société. Les jeunes américaines sont engagées dans une surenchère à qui sera la plus sexy, la plus provocante ou " trash ", sur le modèle de la célèbre héritière Paris Hilton. Elles troquent leur plaisir sexuel pour la performance pornographique. D'autres sont adeptes des clubs de strip-tease et adoptent des attitudes typiquement masculines. Comme Ariel Levy le souligne, si les machistes sont des hommes qui voient les femmes comme des morceaux de viande, les femmes devaient renchérir et devenir des Nouvelles Salopes : des femmes qui font des autres femmes, et d'elles-mêmes, des objets sexuels. Cet ouvrage est une critique de la société américaine à travers des aspects historiques et culturels. Cultivé, parfois drôle et toujours pertinent, le livre d'Ariel Levy est un essai brillant sur un phénomène qui nous concerne déjà. Indispensable.

Female Chauvinist Pigs

release date: Sep 13, 2005
Female Chauvinist Pigs
A classic work on gender culture exploring how the women’s movement has evolved to Girls Gone Wild in a new, self-imposed chauvinism. In the tradition of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth, New York Magazine writer Ariel Levy studies the effects of modern feminism on women today. Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig—the new brand of “empowered woman” who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces “raunch culture” wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women—and of themselves. They think they’re being brave, they think they’re being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy asks if the joke is on them. In her quest to uncover why this is happening, Levy interviews college women who flash for the cameras on spring break and teens raised on Paris Hilton and breast implants. She examines a culture in which every music video seems to feature a stripper on a pole, the memoirs of porn stars are climbing the bestseller lists, Olympic athletes parade their Brazilian bikini waxes in the pages of Playboy, and thongs are marketed to prepubescent girls. Levy meets the high-powered women who create raunch culture—the new oinking women warriors of the corporate and entertainment worlds who eagerly defend their efforts to be “one of the guys.” And she traces the history of this trend back to conflicts between the women’s movement and the sexual revolution long left unresolved. Levy pulls apart the myth of the Female Chauvinist Pig and argues that what has come to pass for liberating rebellion is actually a kind of limiting conformity. Irresistibly witty and wickedly intelligent, Female Chauvinist Pigs makes the case that the rise of raunch does not represent how far women have come, it only proves how far they have left to go.
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