The Boston Globe

Attention, hoarders: Becca Rothfeld thinks minimalism is misguided

The Washington Post book critic takes aim at contemporary trends that elevate reduction and restriction above appetite, thought, mess, and delight Those who despair of ever attaining the pristine ...
The New York Times

A Critic’s Plea for Maximalism: ‘Crack Us Open Like Eggs’

In her first essay collection, Becca Rothfeld demonstrates that sometimes, more really is more. By David Gates David Gates teaches in the M.F.A. program at St. Joseph’s University. When you purchase ...
The Washington Post

In an age of minimalism, here’s a celebration of more, more, more

Printed matter permeates my premises. To my spouse’s chagrin, books and magazines in our house pile up on shelves and tables, in corners and drawers. The basement has boxes of New Yorker issues dating ...
SF Station

Virtual Event: Daniel Mendelsohn with Becca Rothfeld

"Exquisite... Three Rings digresses from its digressions, whirling with elegiac elegance from the 'Odyssey,' which itself veers away from the main tale only to wind ...
The Harvard Crimson

Becca Rothfeld and James Wood at The Harvard Bookstore: Love, Sex, Aesthetics, and the Intersection Between Philosophy and Literature

In spite of the dreary Cambridge weather on the evening of Wednesday, April 3, a determined crowd made the treacherous journey to the Harvard Book Store. Becca Rothfeld, non-fiction book critic for ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

There is More Than Is Dreamt of in Our Academic Philosophy

I n a 2020 essay critiquing academic philosophy’s norms against aestheticizing or personalizing one’s writing, the philosopher and critic Becca Rothfeld observed that “to slice ornament away is to ...
c-span

Becca Rothfeld

On the C-SPAN Networks: Becca Rothfeld is a Contributing Editor for the The Point Mag with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2022 Forum. Morten Høi Jensen, Shawn ...