"Love in the Time of Contagion is shot through with Kipnis' ample comic talent. As a satirist and commiserator she has few equals these days."
--Tablet

"Smooth, lovely stuff, aching for whole chapters, then bracingly mystical, and finally earthy and real."
--The Chicago Tribune

"[Love in the Time of Contagion] is perfectly equidistant between riff and investigation. It's hard to think of anyone else who would cover, in such a short span, the #MeToo movement, H.I.V. crisis pamphlets, Rodney Dangerfield, Jung, Eugene Ionesco, Reddit, Kafka and a 2010 supernatural horror movie about a guy haunted by his astral-projecting son."
--The New York Times

"Riveting about what we have used the pandemic to do to, and for, ourselves Kipnis's book is genuinely enlivening about a terrible thing. This may be just the kind of wit and wisdom we need to do more than merely survive our bad times."
--Adam Phillips, author of Attention Seeking

"Through interviews with friends, colleagues, experts, and students, Kipnis searches for answers in a time when everything everyone ever knew about love, sex, and romance is called into question. By tapping into the Zoom-fueled zeitgeist, Kipnis brings an ironic perspective to this most intimate of subjects. Disarmingly honest, voyeuristically campy, Kipnis' discussion of COVID-19-influenced coupledom is both witty and wise."
--Booklist (starred review)

"Cultural critic and essayist Kipnis explores how Covid-19 and the socio-economic turbulence of the recent years have reshaped concepts of dating, love, sex, and interpersonal closeness...In this witty four-essay collection, she explores how the pandemic, in tandem with such preexisting crises as political polarization, accelerating economic disparities, and racial and sexual injustice, has permanently altered intimate relationships . . . Fearless and sharply observed, this book suggests that future post-pandemic challenges will have less to do with its biological legacy to humanity and more to do with the impact of a virus on interpersonal closeness. Provocative and darkly humorous."
--Kirkus Reviews