Amber Levis (李欣怡)

is a long- and short-form writer based in New York City. Previously, she wrote for the Daily Beast, Harvard Radio Broadcasting, and was chair of the Harvard Crimson Magazine.



Amber holding a cat

PROFILES
Caveh Zahedi, who ended his marriage on TV
Michael Cheng, who abolished the Harvard student government as its president

MUSIC
'Sad girl indie' ruined music and sadness and girlhood
of Montreal's psychadelic camp theater
American Football returns to teenage feelings
Thundercat is in yo girl's city
The Mountain Goats storm the Wilbur
IDLES at Roadrunner

LOCAL
Anna Delvey's photoshoot bunnies dumped in Prospect Park
Eric Adams says Andrew Cuomo pushed him to drop out of mayoral race
Labor complaints at Harvard's Summer Urban Program
A brave new crossworld at the Boston Winter Wondersolve

POLITICS
Judge orders nursing mom to be released from ICE custody
Trump considers reopening 'insane asylums' amid crime crackdown
Trump gives coal a suspiciously camp glow-up
Trump and Bondi have 100,000 pages of Epstein files
Charlie Kirk suspect's grandma says family is all MAGA

OTHER PROJECTS
American Cornucopia (photography, 2025)
The 2008 Beijing olympics as China's modern spectacle (senior thesis, 2025)
How tarot became magical (video essay, 2022)

CONNECT
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