Fiction Pick of the Week: "A Flawless Silence"
A Chinese-American woman's past and present collide.
Marriage
Riding Away From a Broken Marriage
How getting back into serious cycling helped the author heal as his marriage unraveled.
Child Bride
The writer’s mother had always said that she had married at 12. Was she lying?
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Basement Miracles"
Observations from an AA meeting.
The Love of My Life
On losing a mother and a marriage.
Aftermath
The end of a marriage.
China's Mistress Dispellers
How an economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a new industry.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Restoration Ecology"
Science work, youth, and middle aged troubles.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Sex Trade"
An examination of race, sex, and visible secrets.
The Marriage Cure
In an Oklahoma City neighborhood usually left off city maps, the federal government is implementing its $300 million anti-poverty plan: teaching poor Americans how to get married.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Just Visiting"
An American wife's keen unhappiness on her European honeymoon.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Maps and Legends"
Hallucinations and peculiar memories of a dead spouse.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "This Bridge"
Scenes from a crumbling marriage, a friendship, a life in the painful present.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Fable"
Life problems imagined as fantasies.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "What Will Make It Last"
Unspoken issues grip a couple's dinner along the Mississippi River.
Even Sex Goddesses Get the Blues
The Cosmo editor and author of Sex and the Single Girl’s rocky real-life relationships.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Burglar"
The real-time intersection of race, crime, reality, and entertainment.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Simcoe Furriers"
A taxidermist's life gradually spins out of control.
The Divorce Colony
If you wanted a divorce in the late 1800s, you had to move to South Dakota. Even if you were the niece of John Jacob Astor III.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Way You Look at Me"
Marriage, infidelity, distance, and communications.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "I Only Want to Talk About the Nice Things"
On the eve of their daughter's wedding, a divorced couple is confused by old feelings despite sexual identities.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Stay A While"
An elderly woman renovates her basement for renters and discovers uncomfortable truths about herself.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Extra Mile"
A woman in an unhappy marriage stumbles toward change.
"Without turning the radio on, Hannah drove back into town and into the driveway of her house. She sat there in the car for a long while and ran through the drive with Tex over and over. She wanted to go back and stop herself from touching his leg. She wanted to go back and stop herself from driving there in the first place. She wanted to go back and stop the day from ever starting."
Deeply Conservative Oklahoma Adjusts to Sudden Arrival of Same-Sex Marriage
Tracy and Kathryn plan their wedding.
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
How mental illness reshapes a marriage.
