Emily Greenhouse (born 1986) is an American journalist. She has been the editor of ''

The New York Review of Books ''The New York Review of Books'' (or ''NYREV'' or ''NYRB'') is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of i ...

'' since March 2021, after being appointed co-editor in March 2019.

Education and career

Greenhouse graduated from

Pelham Memorial High School The Pelham Memorial High School is the only high school within the town of Pelham, New York, United States. It is part of the Pelham Union Free School District. A small portion of land that is between Pelham and Pelham Bay Park, with a total ...

and went on to graduate from

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Epis ...

in 2008. Greenhouse began her career as a freelance researcher and writer in Paris. She worked as an editorial assistant at ''Granta'' magazine, in London, in 2009 and 2010. From 2011 to 2012, she worked as an editorial assistant to

Robert B. Silvers Robert Benjamin Silvers (December 31, 1929 – March 20, 2017) was an American editor who served as editor of ''The New York Review of Books'' from 1963 to 2017. Raised on Long Island, New York, Silvers graduated from the University of Chicago ...

, the co-founder of ''The New York Review of Books''. From 2012 to 2014, she worked as editorial assistant to

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, the editor of ''The New Yorker''. Greenhouse joined Bloomberg as a reporter in 2014, focusing on gender and politics. In 2016, she returned to ''The New Yorker'' as the managing editor, where she remained until 2019. Tapped to lead ''The New York Review of Books'' following

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’s departure, she returned to the publication in 2019. She is the first woman to be sole editor of the magazine.

Selected works

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Personal life

Greenhouse is the daughter of Steven Greenhouse, the longtime ''New York Times'' labor and workplace reporter. She is married to Martin Mulkeen.

References

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