Becca Rothfeld Author

A finalist for a National Magazine Award and a two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian reviewing prize, Becca Rothfeld is an essayist, critic, editor, and philosopher. She has written about Paul Celan, Bohumil Hrabal, Sally Rooney, Heinrich von Kleist, Bruno Schulz, Simone Weil, internet stalking, Marie Kondo, serial killers, and more for publications like The New York Review of Books, The TLS, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Art in America, The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic, AGNI, Cabinet, The Point, The Yale Review, and many others. Her work brings philosophy to bear on both high art and contemporary culture. At Harvard, where she is currently a PhD candidate in philosophy and a fellow at the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics, Becca studies the relationship between ethics and aesthetics.