The Escalating Costs of Being Single in America
Why is life in this country so hostile to single people?
Marriage
Naked Grief
On illness, lockdown, marriage, and intimacy.
The Promise That Tested My Parents Until the End
A couple, a caregiver, and a promise.
How Queer Sex Liberated Me
In staying, I was not only denying myself the chance at true happiness, but I was keeping him from having it, too. It was that realization—that I was preventing my husband from having the life he deserved—that ultimately outweighed the fears I had about leaving.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Poster"
A childhood poster catalyzes complex doubts about a marriage.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Do I Amuse You?"
A troubled professor's obsession with "Goodfellas."
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Anniversary"
A husband tells his wife a strange, secret story.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Only One Who Could Ever Teach Me"
Widowers form a bond.
Guns and Marriage
An unlikely Army wife tries to come to terms with her husband’s calling.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Appendaged"
A neighbor's strange procedure; a couple's disintegrating marriage.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Strangers No More"
A scary proposal sends a husband spiraling.
The Crane Wife
On calling off a wedding, and studying whooping cranes.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Still Soft, Still Whole"
Scenes from a troubled Appalachian marriage.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Give Me a Love Song"
Scenes and thoughts from an affair.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Not Everyone is Special"
Magic powers meet everyday problems.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Widows Club"
A group of wives discuss the results of their partners' hypothetical demises.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Veil"
A lover's death sends an artist into increasing spirals.
Nothing Is Normal When Your Husband Is Exiled
“It’s not like there’s a textbook or some guidebook that teaches you how to behave or how to react when your husband becomes an exile.”
Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Portrait"
Various forms of isolation in rural Canada.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Ghost Stories"
Ghostly stories and family tragedies.
'You Shouldn’t Be Doing This'
Should marrying a child be allowed?
Fiction Pick of the Week: "North Country, Early Morning"
Lost love and a robbery.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Mae and Me"
After her husband's disappearance, a woman bonds with her landlady.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Wait Time"
A woman copes with her husband's terminal illness.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Mucci"
A European vacation, a quietly crumbling marriage.
