Kat Rosenfield

Kat Rosenfield is a culture writer and novelist. Her next book, No One Will Miss Her, will be published by William Morrow in October 2021.

So Much for Thinking Different
Big corporations like Apple have long claimed to hire misfits and freethinkers. In today’s hyperpolitical workplaces, with their zeal for conformity, these promises have never been more destructively hollow.
byKat Rosenfield
One on One
In her new book, sex therapist Bat Sheva Marcus looks at monogamy, with a special focus on women’s sexual satisfaction
byKat Rosenfield
Fake Accounts
Lauren Oyler’s debut novel of millennialist self-regard ‘reads like a dispatch directly from the bowels of Internet Hell’
byKat Rosenfield
Young Love
Thirty-year-old lawyers throwing bombs are ‘just kids,’ while 12-year-olds are prosecuted for ‘racism.’ How youth went from a stage of human development to a protected political class.
byKat Rosenfield
I See You
Daphne Merkin’s seductive, self-referential new novel, ‘22 Minutes of Unconditional Love,’ plays the ballad of the voyeur
byKat Rosenfield
Master Cleanse
Why social justice feels like self-help to privileged women
byKat Rosenfield
Max and Franz’s Woman Problem
A new translation of Max Brod’s early 20th-century novel ‘Jewish Women’ echoes to today’s confusing and awkward romance scene
byKat Rosenfield
The Real Problem With Cancel Culture
It’s not about celebrities. It’s about us losing trust in each other.
byKat Rosenfield
Judge, Jury, and Interviewer
Celebrity profiles have become an excuse for fawning over celebrities or attacking political targets, but it’s time for journalists to get back to seeking the truth
byKat Rosenfield
Birth of the Cool Guy
What lies beneath the surface of his performative feminism?
byKat Rosenfield
NPR: Neo-Puritan Revival
Why can’t young feminists seem to acknowledge their agency, or fathom that they experience desire at all?
byKat Rosenfield
Sarah Silverman Tweaks #MeToo
In providing some context about her friend Louis C.K., is she making a useful reintroduction into the public realm of a forgotten version of femininity?
byKat Rosenfield
The Social Media Echo Chamber Failed to Kill ‘Insatiable’
An outcry over a new show’s alleged fat-shaming may be more a crisis of criticism in the age of Twitter
byKat Rosenfield