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Leslie Camhi

New York

Journalist at Freelance

Essayist/Translator (French) Words: Vogue, NYTimes, NYorker, Scribner. Yale PhD. Book on YSL women. Mom, 🐈 lover. Int’l Booker nom. 2022. IG: @drlesliecamhi

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Articles

  • I’ll Tell You When I’m Home

    3 weeks ago | 4columns.org | Leslie Camhi

    I’ll Tell You When I’m Home Leslie Camhi In Hala Alyan’s memoir, themes of exile, loss, and cultural heritage emerge alongside preparations for the arrival of a baby via surrogacy.

  • Neige Sinno Doesn’t Believe in Writing as Therapy

    2 months ago | newyorker.com | Leslie Camhi

    “Because for me too, when it comes down to it, the thing that’s most interesting is what’s going on in the perpetrator’s head.” So begins “Sad Tiger,” Neige Sinno’s strange, shattering memoir of childhood sexual abuse.

  • Suzanne and Louise

    Dec 6, 2024 | 4columns.org | Leslie Camhi

    Suzanne and Louise Leslie Camhi Hervé Guibert’s great-aunts serve as muses and collaborators in a newly translated “photo novel” of disquieting love and beauty.

  • My Day as a First-Time Canvasser

    Oct 30, 2024 | vogue.com | Leslie Camhi

    I was on a packed bus, barreling down Interstate 78 on a recent Sunday, when, about an hour southwest of the Lincoln Tunnel, a sudden longing hit me, to ask the driver to stop. I’d disembark, I reasoned, and make my way—by foot, if necessary, through the wilds of New Jersey—back to the comforting familiarity of my apartment on the Upper West Side. I’m an experienced traveler, writing often for magazines about sometimes far-flung destinations. So why was this entirely domestic trip making me uneasy?

  • The Mordant Intimacy of Cécile Desprairies’s “The Propagandist”

    Oct 11, 2024 | newyorker.com | Leslie Camhi

    Years ago, a man who was then my fiancé gave me a mourning ring, inscribed with the name and dates of birth and death of a Frenchwoman who lived in the mid-eighteenth century. Strands of pale blonde hair are encased in its central setting, which is surrounded by tiny amethysts.

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Leslie Camhi
Leslie Camhi @CamhiLeslie
16 Feb 25

I am binge reading Dickens’s Bleak House to temporarily escape the horror of the current news cycle. But little Joe is about to die and I’m not sure I can take it. #Dickens #BleakHouse

Leslie Camhi
Leslie Camhi @CamhiLeslie
7 Feb 25

I had forgotten only one thing—how entirely exhausting it is to have the man as president.

Leslie Camhi
Leslie Camhi @CamhiLeslie
22 Jan 25

Nazi salute or not, Elon Musk was gesturing to a new spectacle of fascism https://t.co/MU8xIKpca6