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Books

WOMEN & CHILDREN Riverhead — forthcoming 2027 Read an excerpt in The New Yorker

ACTS OF SERVICE Hogarth — 2022 “A sex masterpiece”—The Guardian more

Selected Writing

What makes an object sexy? new The New Yorker

On Talia Chetrit2025

Art in America

On Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye The New Yorker

The Front Page ★ The Point

Travesty ★ fiction The New Yorker

Would you rather have married young? The Metropolitan Review

On Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo2024

The Washington Post

What is the read receipt for? Granta

Isabel fiction Granta

Higher Gossip, an advice column on sex and love, published throughout 2024 The Point The Holy Evil — on inequality and love ★ Subjection — is good advice unromantic? ★ more

Some Interviews

On Sexual Politics The New Yorker

On Sex, Self-Knowledge, and Psychoanalysis The London Magazine

Contact

Dan Kirschen, daniel.kirschen@caa.com Follow me on Substack for occasional updates