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Becca Rothfeld

Becca Rothfeld is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Harvard.

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October 16, 2020
Becca Rothfeld
The Fiercely Despairing Fiction of Susan Taubes
Written out of the traumas of exile and marriage, her novel “Divorcing” captures a divided self.
February 4, 2019
Becca Rothfeld
A Sadistic Master Storyteller
The many varieties of misery in the dazzling short stories of Machado de Assis
March 14, 2018
Becca Rothfeld
J.G. Ballard’s Eerily Accurate Dystopias
His novels “Crash” and “Super-Cannes” depict a world of tech-enhanced luxury and crushing malaise.
November 14, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
Thank You Taylor Swift for Making It Cool for Women to Act Crazy
November 7, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
A Single Sound Brought Together Berlin After the Wall Fell
October 23, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
A Holocaust Victim's Forgotten Masterpiece Is Finally Available in America
October 8, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
Gone Girl's Feminist Update of the Old-Fashioned Femme Fatale
September 24, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
The New Fairy Tale Is Trying to Escape Its Past
August 6, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
The Japanese Literature Trend That's Half Cupcake, Half Decapitation
July 27, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
How Ravers Became the New Flower Children
EDM is the feel-good music of a new generation

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