Yasha Levine

Yasha Levine (February 23, 1981)^[6][7] is a Russian-American investigative journalist, author and reporter. Levine, who was born in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, was raised in San Francisco, California.^[8][9]

Yasha Levine
Levine in Seattle in 2018
Born	(1981-02-23) February 23, 1981 (age 44) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian American
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley[1]
Occupations	Journalist Reporter Author
Spouse	Evgenia Kovda[2]
Children	1[3]
Parents	Boris Levine[4] (father) Nellie Levine[5] (mother)
Website	yasha.substack.com

Levine's family emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1989 when Levine was 8-years-old,^[10][4] first living in a Gresten, Austria refugee camp before living in Castelfusano, Italy (near Ostia, Rome) for five months.^[5] In 1990, Levine and his family left Italy for New York.^[10] Levine has a brother Eli.^[11]

He is a former editor of Moscow-based satirical newspaper The eXile.^[12][13] He has written the book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet which was published in 2018.^[14] The New Yorker reviewed Surveillance Valley positively describing it as "forceful" and "salutary".^[15] Levine's other books include A Journey Through California's Oligarch Valley, The Koch Brothers: A Short History, and The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell.^[16] Levine was previously a correspondent at PandoDaily.^[17] He has also written for Wired, The Nation, Slate, TIME, The New York Observer, The Baffler and more.^[18] He is a co-founder of the S.H.A.M.E. Project.

Bibliography

• Levine, Yasha (2012). The Corruption of Malcolm Gladwell. S.H.A.M.E. Books.
• Levine, Yasha (2013). The Neocon, The Messiah, and Cory Booker. Not Safe For Work Corporation.
• Levine, Yasha (2013). A Journey Through Oligarch Valley. Not Safe For Work Corporation.
• Levine, Yasha (2013). The Koch Brothers: A Short History. S.H.A.M.E. Books.
• Levine, Yasha (2014). Manhattan's Billionaire Farmers. S.H.A.M.E. Books.
• Levine, Yasha (2018). Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781610398022.

Filmography

• Levine, Yasha; Wernham, Rowan. Pistachio Wars.