Katie Roiphe
Professor | Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program, Director
Email: katie.roiphe@nyu.edu
Katie Roiphe’s books include The Power Notebooks, The Violet Hour, Uncommon Arrangements, and In Praise of Messy Lives. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, Vogue, Esquire, Slate, and The Paris Review, among many other places. She has a Ph.D. in literature from Princeton University.
Published Articles & Essays
February 12th, 2025
Janet Malcolm Understood the Power of Not Being ‘Nice’
October 5th, 2023
Our Hang-Up With ‘Cougars’
September 7th, 2023
A ‘Mirror World’ Where Leftist Disdain Feeds Right-Wing Paranoia
November 7th, 2022
The Woman T.S. Eliot Loved At Arm’s Length and Enshrined in Verse
February 23rd, 2021
Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival
March 19th, 2016
Dying, With Nothing to Say
March 8th, 2016
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
March 6th, 2014
Feminism, Meet Fiction
October 30th, 2013
The Dutch Don’t Care About Marriage
October 8th, 2013
The Philosopher and the Student
June 27th, 2013
Stop Attacking Male Writers for Being Sexist
May 8th, 2013
Is the Bohemian Dead?
September 4th, 2012
In Praise of Messy Lives
August 31st, 2012
Disappearing mothers
August 29th, 2012
Death, Explained. Christopher Hitchens’ Mortality: A rare honest book about death.
August 11th, 2012
In Defense of Single Motherhood
July 6th, 2012
Not Quite How a Person Should Be
January 27th, 2012
Rabbit at Rest
November 13th, 2011
In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risque Remarks
October 27th, 2011
Gawker Is Big Immature Baby
March 21st, 2011
Janet Malcolm, The Art of Nonfiction No. 4
March 1st, 2011
Interviews: Janet Malcolm, The Art of Nonfiction No. 4
January 10th, 2011
Why Criticism Matters
November 19th, 2010
Modern parenting
August 13th, 2010
The Language of Fakebook
July 30th, 2010
The Allure of Messy Lives
December 31st, 2009
The Naked and the Conflicted
June 1st, 2009
Gay Talese, The Art of Nonfiction No. 2
December 15th, 2008
Under the Sign of Sontag
May 20th, 2008
Uncommon Arrangements
April 27th, 2008
Reclaiming the Shrew
February 3rd, 2008
Without Metaphor
April 30th, 2007
The Great Escape