She is also the author of Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End (1997), and the 2007 study of writers and marriage, Uncommon Arrangements.

"[8] Writing for The New Yorker, Katha Pollitt gave the book a negative review, calling it "a careless and irresponsible performance, poorly argued and full of misrepresentations, slapdash research, and gossip.

In her essay, entitled "Elect Sister Frigidaire",[12] Roiphe writes that Hillary Clinton is "in many ways the feminist dream incarnate, the opportunity made flesh, the words we whisper to little girls: 'You can be president.

Donna Seaman, in the trade publication Booklist, gave the book a starred review, writing, "Roiphe, inspired aesthetically and philosophically by the writings and lives of these social and artistic pioneers, offers sophisticated psychological, sexual, and social analysis, fashioning uncommonly affecting portraits of uncommon men and women.

The author has done something constructive, for a change, with her contempt for the contemporary age’s lily-livered female psyche..."[16] Roiphe responded to some of her critics in an essay in Slate including Gawker.

In The New York Times, critic Dwight Garner praised the book, writing, "I’ve begun recommending it to people, particularly to would-be writers, explaining that Ms. Roiphe’s are how you want your essays to sound: lean and literate, not unlike Orwell’s, with a frightening ratio of velocity to torque....

'"[18] In January 2018, Twitter users spread the information that Roiphe planned to name the creator of the anonymous Shitty Media Men list, a private spreadsheet that later became public.

[20] Roiphe is a professor at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the Director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program.