Laura Kipnis
Author · 9 books
Laura Kipnis is the author of Against Love: A Polemic; How to Become A Scandal; The Female Thing; Bound and Gagged; and the upcoming Men: Notes from an Ongoing Observation (out in November). Her books have been translated into fifteen languages. She's written essays and criticism for Slate, Harper’s, Playboy, New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, and Bookforum. A former filmmaker, she teaches filmmaking at Northwestern University. She lives in Chicago and New York.
Books
Men
Notes from an Ongoing Investigation
2014
How to Become a Scandal
Adventures in Bad Behavior
2010
Against Love
A Polemic
2003
Unwanted Advances
Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
2017
The Best American Essays 2023
2023
Love in the Time of Contagion
A Diagnosis
2022
The Female Thing
Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability
2006
Ecstasy Unlimited
On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics
1993
Bound and Gagged
Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America
1996
