On the day of its release, Laura Kipnis' LOVE IN THE TIME OF CONTAGION received a glowing review in The New York Times from Molly Young. Young writes: “Dance like nobody’s watching. Love like there’s no tomorrow. Write like nobody’s going to cancel you. This is the way of Laura Kipnis…[S]cooting around Kipnis’ mind feels like eating the world’s finest trail mix: no dud raisins to shift aside, only M&Ms and the fancier nuts…[LOVE IN THE TIME OF CONTAGION] is perfectly equidistant between riff and investigation.” Pantheon published the book on February 8, 2022.