The Sun Interview

To Have And To Hold Stephanie Coontz On The Past, Present, And Future Of Marriage

“Marriage has become harder, not because people did it better in the past, but because we have higher expectations of what a marriage should be.”

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Radical Idea Of Marrying For Love

“For most of history it was inconceivable that people would choose their mates on the basis of something as fragile and irrational as love and then focus all their sexual, intimate, and altruistic desires on the resulting marriage.”

The Possible Universe

“The first time the married man tells you to kneel and wait for him, you are at home in your pajamas. He is at work, and his text arrives over your phone: how fast can you put on a sexy outfit complete with shoes and unlock your door and be kneeling silent in your apartment when i come in.”

Undue Familiarity

“The volunteer coordinator warns you many people cry when entering or leaving this prison, a red-brick high-rise in rural North Carolina housing the state’s youngest male offenders, ages fifteen to twenty-one.”

The Bird List

“He told me to stand very still and wait for a flash of movement in the tree, then focus on a reference point — say, a gnarled branch — and lift the binoculars to my face.”

Fiction

#WeAreHarryChang

“My psychiatrist, the wrinkly Dr. Kim, fiddles with the graying strands that cover his shiny dome and repeats the same questions as usual. . .”

Poetry

In The Blaze

Readers Write

At The Last Minute

A missing groom, an emergency delivery, a dog’s life