NYU Arts & Science

Katie Roiphe

Professor | Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program, Director

Email: katie.roiphe@nyu.edu

Katie Roiphe is the author of several books, including The Violet Hour, Uncommon Arrangements, The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism, and In Praise of Messy Lives. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Harper’s, Vogue, Esquire, Slate, and Tin House, among many other places. She has a Ph.D. in literature from Princeton University.

Published Works

Dying, With Nothing to Say

The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End

Feminism, Meet Fiction

The Dutch Don’t Care About Marriage

The Philosopher and the Student

Stop Attacking Male Writers for Being Sexist

Is the Bohemian Dead?

In Praise of Messy Lives

Disappearing mothers

Death, Explained. Christopher Hitchens’ Mortality: A rare honest book about death.

In Defense of Single Motherhood

Not Quite How a Person Should Be

In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risque Remarks

Gawker Is Big Immature Baby

Janet Malcolm, The Art of Nonfiction No. 4

Interviews: Janet Malcolm, The Art of Nonfiction No. 4

Why Criticism Matters

Modern parenting

The Language of Fakebook

The Allure of Messy Lives

The Naked and the Conflicted

Gay Talese, The Art of Nonfiction No. 2

Under the Sign of Sontag

Uncommon Arrangements

Reclaiming the Shrew

Without Metaphor

The Great Escape