Kat Rosenfield

Author Archive

  • Apr 13, 2026
    Once upon a time, no conversation about Playboy magazine was complete without a jab at the oft-repeated claim by certain men to read it for the articles — which was broadly...
  • Apr 1, 2026
    A couple years ago, a group of freshmen at a college in Massachusetts staged a To Catch a Predator-style sting of a so-called “pedophile.” Their target: a 22 year-old...
  • Mar 11, 2026
    “If you think I have been brainwashed and I am secretly miserable, I simply do not know what to tell you.” So proclaims the final chapter of Adult Braces, a new...
  • Mar 9, 2026
    There’s a scene in My Year of Rest and Relaxation, the novel by Otessa Moshfegh, where the protagonist takes a dump on a piece of modern art. That’s not a euphemism:...
  • Jan 30, 2026
    Somewhere in the middle of my multiday bingewatch of Bridgerton—the sexy Netflix period drama which returns today for its fourth season—I started thinking about the...
  • Jan 26, 2026
    There’s a dad out there who I think about sometimes. Not my dad, to be clear; just a dad—a man I’ve never met, whose existence I’m only...