Becca Rothfeld
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  • About
  • Selected Writing
    • Essays
    • Mostly Literary But Some Art Criticism
    • Juvenilia
  • CV
  • Contact
  • GRAD SCHOOL APP ADVICE
Long:
On Sheila Heti for the New Left Review
On shame for the New Yorker

On Heather Havrilesky's memoir about marriage, Foreverland, for the New Yorker

On a married couple's photographs of intimacy for The New Yorker

On Anne Serre for Bookforum

On Jonathan Franzen for The Atlantic 

On Aleksander Tisma for the New Left Review

​On three books about women and sex for the Boston Review

On Simone Weil for the Hedgehog Review

On Diane Johnson for The Nation

On Jenny Erpenbeck for the New Left Review

On Patricia Lockwood and "internet novels" for the Baffler

On Paul Celan for the Poetry Foundation

On Kafka for Bookforum

On Ann Quin for the New York Review of Books

On Susan Taubes for The New Republic
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I interviewed James Wood for Aesthetics for Birds

On Joseph Roth's short stories for Bookforum

On Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas for The Baffler

On Sally Rooney for The Point

On James Wood for Bookforum

On Vasily Grossman for Jewish Currents 

​On Hrabal for the New Yorker

​On Lolita for The Point 

On Lisa Taddeo's Three Women for the TLS
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On Gregogor von Rezzori in the summer 2019 issue of Bookforum

​On Machado de Assis's stories for The New Republic

On Bruno Schulz for The Nation

On Uwe Johnson's 1700 page opus for the Dec/Jan issue of Bookforum

On Helen DeWitt for The Nation

On John Kaag and Nietzsche for The Atlantic 

On Klimt and Schiele for Art in America online 

On Vernon Lee in the May 2018 issue of Art in America

On J.G. Ballard for The New Republic 

On Feeling Jewish and the Jewish Joke for the Jewish studies issue of the Times Literary Supplement 

On Christa Wolf in the March19-26 issue of The Nation

On Berlin Alexanderplatz in the Feb/March 2018 issue of Bookforum

On Henry Green in the Times Literary Supplement

On Pessoa in the Sept/Oct/Nov 2017 issue of Bookforum

On Deborah Levy in the Aug/Sept 2017 issue of The Nation

On Sara Ahmed and sexism in the academy for the June 7 2017 issue of the Chronicle Review

On ethics & aesthetics in fiction in the Times Literary Supplement

​On Raduan Nassar in the Apr/May 2017 issue of Bookforum

On Iris Murdoch on The Nation website

On Anselm Kiefer and W.G. Sebald on The Nation website

On Ben Lerner in the LA Review of Books

On Tim Parks in the July 2016 issue of The Nation

On Coetzee and autobiography in the Jan. 2016 issue The Nation

On The Tale of Genji in the Believer

On Antal Szerb in the October 2014 issue of The new Republic
Short:
On Rebecca Mead's memoir for the New York Times Book Review

On Anna Seghers for the TLS

On Emily Ratajkowski for the Guardian 

On Meghan O'Gieblyn's God, Human, Animal, Machine for the New York Times Book Review 

On Markus Gabriel for the TLS

On Joan Didion for the TLS

On Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts for the Spectator

On Zizek's pandemic book for the TLS

On Robert Perisic for the TLS

On Daniel Mendelsohn, Namwali Serpell, and Brian Dillon for the NYT

On JoAnn Wypijewski in the TLS

On Magda Szabo in the New York Times Book Review
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On Ben Lerner's Topeka School for the Wallstreet Journal 

On Nancy K. Miller's memoir for the Times Literary Supplement

On a biography of Hannah Arendt in the Times Literary Supplement

On David Sedaris in the Times Literary Supplement 

On Joanna Walsh in the Times Literary Supplement

On "The Nix" in the Times Literary Supplement

On Howard Jacobson's "Pussy" in the Times Literary Supplement

On Nell Zink's "Nicotine" in the Times Literary Supplement

On "The Book of Memory" in New York Times Book Review

On "The Unraveling of Mercy Louis" in the New York Times Book Review

On Julian Barnes's essays in the Washington Post

On An Innocent Fashion in the Washington Post
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