Lapidos began her career as a culture editor at
Slate, writing about friendship between men and women,
Woody Allen, and the "Slate pitches" meme, among other topics. In 2011, she joined the
New York Times as an opinion section staff editor. In 2015, she joined the
Los Angeles Times as the editor of the op-ed page and the Sunday opinion section. In 2018 she left the
Los Angeles Times to join the
Atlantic as a senior editor. Lapidos has written for
The Atlantic, the
New York Times Book Review,
the New Yorker, and
The Forward. She is the author of the novel
Talent, published by Little, Brown in the United States, Borough Press in the United Kingdom, and Bompiani in Italy. == Works ==