I n a 2020 essay critiquing academic philosophy’s norms against aestheticizing or personalizing one’s writing, the philosopher and critic Becca Rothfeld observed that “to slice ornament away is to ...
In spite of the dreary Cambridge weather on the evening of Wednesday, April 3, a determined crowd made the treacherous journey to the Harvard Book Store. Becca Rothfeld, non-fiction book critic for ...
Give liberalism credit. It takes a lot to bring together high-brow intellectuals of the postliberal right and the postmodern-progressive left. Yet they make common cause, if largely unbeknownst to ...
WASHINGTON DC, MAY 24: The Washington Post Building at 1301 K St. NW in Washington DC, May 24, 2016. (John McDonnell / The Washington Post) Announcement from Books Editor John Williams, Executive ...
Subject: The Review: Becca Rothfeld on sanctimony, philosophy, and Twitter I think it sort of happens naturally, in virtue of my preoccupations. The kind of books about which I think I would have ...
Printed matter permeates my premises. To my spouse’s chagrin, books and magazines in our house pile up on shelves and tables, in corners and drawers. The basement has boxes of New Yorker issues dating ...
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. It’s a happy coincidence that we recommend Becca Rothfeld’s essay collection “All Things Are Too Small” — a critic’s manifesto “in ...
The literary-critical marketplace now suffers social media as a necessary side street at the very least, if not a central forum. As a result, it has adopted some of the latter’s methods of preference ...
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